2 Corinthians 5:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ἡ ἐπίγειος ἡμῶν οἰκία τοῦ σκήνους καταλυθῇ, οἰκοδομὴν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἔχομεν, οἰκίαν ἀχειροποίητον, αἰώνιον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.

Transliteration

Oidamen gar that ean the epigeios of us oikia of the skēnous katalythē, oikodomēn from Theos we echomen, oikian acheiropoiēton, aiōnion in the ouranois.

Grammar Details

• *Oidamen*: perfect active indicative, 1st person plural - we know [completed action with continuing results]
• *gar*: conjunction - for/because [explanatory]
• *ean*: conditional conjunction - if [introducing hypothetical condition]
• *epigeios*: adjective, nominative feminine singular - earthly/terrestrial
• *oikia*: noun, nominative feminine singular - house/dwelling
• *skēnous*: noun, genitive neuter singular - tent/tabernacle [metaphorical for body]
• *katalythē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - be destroyed/dissolved
• *oikodomēn*: noun, accusative feminine singular - building/edifice
• *Theos*: noun, genitive masculine singular - God
• *echomen*: present active indicative, 1st person plural - we have
• *oikian*: noun, accusative feminine singular - house/dwelling
• *acheiropoiēton*: adjective, accusative feminine singular - not made with hands
• *aiōnion*: adjective, accusative feminine singular - eternal
• *ouranois*: noun, dative masculine plural - heavens

Word Meanings

• *Oidamen*: know/understand/perceive
• *skēnous*: tent/tabernacle/temporary dwelling
• *katalythē*: be destroyed/dissolved/taken down
• *oikodomēn*: building/structure/edifice
• *acheiropoiēton*: not made with hands/not of human construction

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
• Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
• 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
• 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
• 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
• Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
• 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
• Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
• 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
• 1 Cor 15:46-48 : 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
• Job 19:25-26 : 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
• Job 30:22 : 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
• Ps 56:9 : 9 When I cry{H8799)} unto thee, then shall mine enemies{H8802)} turn{H8799)} back: this I know{H8804)}; for God is for me.
• Col 2:11 : 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• 1 John 3:14 : 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• 1 John 3:19 : 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Mark 14:58 : 58 {G3754} We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.