Luke 8:43

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γυνὴ οὖσα ἐν ῥύσει αἵματος ἀπὸ ἐτῶν δώδεκα, ἥτις εἰς ἰατροὺς προσαναλώσασα ὅλον τὸν βίον, οὐκ ἴσχυσεν ὑπʼ οὐδενὸς θεραπευθῆναι,

Transliteration

And gynē ousa in rhysei of haimatos from etōn dōdeka, who to iatrous prosanalōsasa whole the bion, not ischysen by no one therapeuthēnai,

Grammar Details

• *gynē*: nominative, feminine, singular - woman
• *ousa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - being
• *rhysei*: dative, feminine, singular - flow/discharge
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of blood
• *etōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of years
• *dōdeka*: cardinal numeral - twelve
• *iatrous*: accusative, masculine, plural - physicians/doctors
• *prosanalōsasa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having spent
• *bion*: accusative, masculine, singular - livelihood/life/means
• *ischysen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - was able/had strength
• *therapeuthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be healed/cured

Word Meanings

• *gynē*: woman/wife
• *ousa*: being/existing
• *rhysei*: flow/discharge/hemorrhage
• *haimatos*: blood/bloodshed
• *etōn*: years
• *dōdeka*: twelve
• *iatrous*: physicians/doctors/healers
• *prosanalōsasa*: having spent/consumed/used up
• *bion*: livelihood/life/means of living
• *ischysen*: was able/had strength/succeeded
• *therapeuthēnai*: to be healed/cured/treated

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:20-22 : 20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind [him], and touched the hem of his garment: 21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, ‹Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.› And the woman was made whole from that hour.
• Mark 5:25-26 : 25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
• Acts 3:2 : 2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
• Acts 4:22 : 22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
• Acts 14:8-9 : 8 ¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
• 2 Chr 16:12 : 12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
• Job 13:4 : 4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
• Ps 108:12 : 12 Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
• Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
• Isa 55:1-3 : 1 ¶ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.
• Mark 9:18 : 18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
• Mark 9:21-22 : 21 And he asked his father, ‹How long is it ago since this came unto him?› And he said, Of a child. 22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
• Luke 8:27 : 27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in [any] house, but in the tombs.
• Luke 13:11 : 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up [herself].
• Luke 13:16 : 16 ‹And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?›
• John 5:5-6 : 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case], he saith unto him, ‹Wilt thou be made whole?›
• John 9:1 : 1 ¶ And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.
• John 9:21 : 21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
• Lev 15:25-33 : 25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she [shall be] unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even. 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 30 And the priest shall offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them. 32 This [is] the law of him that hath an issue, and [of him] whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; 33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.