1 Peter 5:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Νήψατε, γρηγορήσατε· ὅτι ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος, ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος, περιπατεῖ, ζητῶν τινα καταπίῃ:

Transliteration

Nēpsate, grēgorēsate; because the antidikos of you diabolos, as leōn ōryomenos, peripatei, zētōn someone he might katapiē:

Grammar Details

• *Nēpsate*: aorist, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - be sober/self-controlled
• *grēgorēsate*: aorist, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - be vigilant/watchful
• *antidikos*: nominative, masculine, singular - adversary/opponent
• *diabolos*: nominative, masculine, singular - devil/accuser
• *leōn*: nominative, masculine, singular - lion
• *ōryomenos*: present participle, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - roaring
• *peripatei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - walks about
• *zētōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - seeking
• *katapiē*: aorist, subjunctive, active, 3rd person singular - may devour/swallow

Word Meanings

• *Nēpsate*: be sober/self-controlled/restrained/clear-minded
• *grēgorēsate*: be vigilant/watchful/alert
• *antidikos*: adversary/opponent/enemy/legal opponent
• *diabolos*: devil/slanderer/accuser
• *ōryomenos*: roaring/growling
• *peripatei*: walks around/prowls/goes about
• *zētōn*: seeking/looking for/searching
• *katapiē*: may devour/swallow/consume

Referenced Verses

• Eph 6:11 : 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Jas 4:7 : 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Job 2:2 : 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
• Eph 4:27 : 27 Neither give place to the devil.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Luke 22:31 : 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Rev 12:12 : 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
• Rom 13:11-13 : 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Zech 3:1 : 1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
• Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
• Joel 3:16 : 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
• Matt 13:39 : 39 {G1161} The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Rev 20:2 : 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
• Titus 2:6 : 6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
• Titus 2:12 : 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
• Judg 14:5 : 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
• Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
• Ps 109:6 : 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
• Isa 5:29-30 : 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
• Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
• Matt 4:11 : 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
• 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
• Zech 11:3 : 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
• Matt 4:1 : 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Luke 12:45-46 : 45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
• Isa 14:12-13 : 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
• Isa 50:8 : 8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
• Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
• Jer 51:38 : 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
• Ezek 19:7 : 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
• Ezek 22:25 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
• Dan 6:24 : 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
• Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
• Hos 13:8 : 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
• Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
• Prov 20:2 : 2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
• Esth 7:6 : 6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Job 1:6-7 : 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
• Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
• Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
• 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• Titus 1:8 : 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
• Titus 2:2 : 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
• Titus 2:4 : 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Matt 24:48-50 : 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;