1 Corinthians 4:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄχρι τῆς ἄρτι ὥρας καὶ πεινῶμεν, καὶ διψῶμεν, καὶ γυμνητεύομεν, καὶ κολαφιζόμεθα, καὶ ἀστατοῦμεν·

Transliteration

Achri tēs arti hōras also peinōmen, and dipsōmen, and gymnēteuomen, and kolaphizometha, and astatoumen;

Grammar Details

*Achri*: preposition - until/to
*tēs arti hōras*: article + adverb + genitive, feminine, singular - the present hour
*kai*: conjunction - also/both/and
*peinōmen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we hunger
*dipsōmen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we thirst
*gymnēteuomen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we are poorly clothed
*kolaphizometha*: present indicative, 1st plural, passive - we are buffeted/beaten
*astatoumen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we are homeless/unstable

Word Meanings

*Achri tēs arti hōras*: until the present hour/to this very moment
*peinōmen*: hunger/are hungry
*dipsōmen*: thirst/are thirsty
*gymnēteuomen*: are poorly clothed/are naked/lack sufficient clothing
*kolaphizometha*: are buffeted/beaten with fists/treated roughly
*astatoumen*: are homeless/unstable/have no certain dwelling place

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Referenced Verses

Rom 8:35 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Phil 4:12 : 12 {G1161} I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Acts 14:19 : 19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Acts 16:23 : 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Acts 23:2 : 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
1 Cor 9:4 : 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
2 Cor 4:8 : 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2 Tim 3:11 : 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Job 22:6 : 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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