Luke 6:38

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Δίδοτε, καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν· μέτρον καλόν, πεπιεσμένον, καὶ σεσαλευμένον, καὶ ὑπερεκχυνόμενον, δώσουσιν εἰς τὸν κόλπον ὑμῶν. Τᾧ γὰρ αὐτῷ μέτρῳ ᾧ μετρεῖτε ἀντιμετρηθήσεται ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

Didote, and it shall be dothēsetai to you; metron kalon, pepiesmenos, and sesaleumenos, and hyperekchynomenos, they shall dōsousin into the kolpon of you. For the autō metrō which you metreite it shall be antimetrēthēsetai to you.

Grammar Details

• *Didote*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person plural - give!
• *dothēsetai*: verb, future passive, 3rd person singular - will be given
• *metron*: noun, nominative, neuter, singular - measure
• *kalon*: adjective, nominative, neuter, singular - good
• *pepiesmenos*: participle, perfect passive, nominative, neuter, singular - having been pressed down
• *sesaleumenos*: participle, perfect passive, nominative, neuter, singular - having been shaken together
• *hyperekchynomenos*: participle, present passive, nominative, neuter, singular - overflowing
• *dōsousin*: verb, future active, 3rd person plural - they will give
• *kolpon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - lap/bosom
• *autō*: pronoun, dative, neuter, singular - same
• *metrō*: noun, dative, neuter, singular - measure
• *metreite*: verb, present active, 2nd person plural - you measure
• *antimetrēthēsetai*: verb, future passive, 3rd person singular - will be measured in return

Word Meanings

• *Didote*: give/provide/donate
• *dothēsetai*: will be given/provided/supplied
• *metron*: measure/quantity/standard
• *kalon*: good/excellent/generous
• *pepiesmenos*: pressed down/compressed (completed action with continuing effect)
• *sesaleumenos*: shaken together/packed (completed action with continuing effect)
• *hyperekchynomenos*: overflowing/running over/spilling over
• *dōsousin*: they will give (impersonal plural)
• *kolpon*: lap/bosom/fold of garment (where items were carried)
• *metrō*: measure/standard/quantity
• *metreite*: measure/use as standard
• *antimetrēthēsetai*: will be measured in return/measured back to

Referenced Verses

• Mark 4:24 : 24 And he said unto them, ‹Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.›
• 2 Cor 9:6-8 : 6 ¶ But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:
• Matt 7:2 : 2 ‹For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.›
• Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
• Deut 15:10 : 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
• Prov 19:17 : 17 ¶ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
• Prov 22:9 : 9 ¶ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
• Isa 65:6-7 : 6 Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
• Prov 10:22 : 22 ¶ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
• 2 Cor 8:14-15 : 14 But by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality: 15 As it is written, He that [had gathered] much had nothing over; and he that [had gathered] little had no lack.
• Luke 6:30 : 30 ‹Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask› [them] ‹not again.›
• Phil 4:17-19 : 17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. 19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
• Ps 79:12 : 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
• Eccl 11:1-2 : 1 ¶ Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
• Judg 1:7 : 7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their meat] under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
• Job 31:16-20 : 16 ¶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
• Job 42:11 : 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
• Ps 18:25-26 : 25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
• Ps 41:1-2 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
• Matt 10:42 : 42 ‹And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold› [water] ‹only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.›
• Rev 16:5-6 : 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
• Ezra 7:27-28 : 27 ¶ Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put [such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem: 28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God [was] upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
• Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
• Esth 9:25 : 25 But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Deut 19:16-21 : 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him [that which is] wrong; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.