James 2:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμεῖς δὲ ἠτιμάσατε τὸν πτωχόν. Οὐχ οἱ πλούσιοι καταδυναστεύουσιν ὑμῶν, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἕλκουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς κριτήρια;

Transliteration

You de ētimasate the ptōchon. Not the plousioi katadynasteuousin you, and they helkousin you into kritēria?

Grammar Details

• Ὑμεῖς: nominative, second person, plural - you
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *ētimasate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you dishonored
• τὸν *ptōchon*: accusative, masculine, singular - the poor man
• Οὐχ: negative particle (interrogative) - not
• οἱ *plousioi*: nominative, masculine, plural - the rich
• *katadynasteuousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they oppress
• ὑμῶν: genitive, second person, plural - of you
• αὐτοὶ: nominative, masculine, plural, intensive pronoun - they themselves
• *helkousin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they drag
• ὑμᾶς: accusative, second person, plural - you
• εἰς: preposition + accusative - into
• *kritēria*: accusative, neuter, plural - courts/tribunals

Word Meanings

• *ētimasate*: dishonored/despised/treated with contempt
• *ptōchon*: poor person/beggar/destitute individual
• *plousioi*: rich people/wealthy ones
• *katadynasteuousin*: oppress/dominate/exercise power over
• *helkousin*: drag/pull/haul/draw
• *kritēria*: courts/tribunals/judgment seats

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 11:22 : 22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
• Acts 17:6 : 6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
• Acts 18:12 : 12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
• Acts 8:3 : 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
• Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
• Ps 14:6 : 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
• Prov 14:31 : 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
• Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
• Jas 5:6 : 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
• Prov 22:16 : 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Eccl 9:15-16 : 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
• Isa 3:14-15 : 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
• Amos 5:11 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
• Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
• Mic 6:11-12 : 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
• Zech 7:10 : 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Acts 16:19-20 : 19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, 20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
• 1 Kgs 21:11-13 : 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
• Jas 2:3 : 3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
• Ps 10:2 : 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
• Ps 10:8 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
• Ps 10:10 : 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
• Ps 10:14 : 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Acts 4:1-3 : 1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
• Acts 4:26-28 : 26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. 27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
• Acts 5:17-18 : 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,(which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
• Acts 5:26-27 : 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
• Job 20:19 : 19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
• John 8:49 : 49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.