James 5:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ χρυσὸς ὑμῶν καὶ ὁ ἄργυρος κατίωται· καὶ ὁ ἰὸς αὐτῶν εἰς μαρτύριον ὑμῖν ἔσται, καὶ φάγεται τὰς σάρκας ὑμῶν ὡς πῦρ. Ἐθησαυρίσατε ἐν ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις.

Transliteration

The chrysos of you and the argyros katiōtai; and the ios of them eis martyrion to you estai, and phagetai the sarkas of you as pyr. Ethēsaurisate en eschatais hēmerais.

Grammar Details

*chrysos*: nominative, masculine, singular - gold
*argyros*: nominative, masculine, singular - silver
*katiōtai*: perfect passive, 3rd singular - has been corroded/rusted
*ios*: nominative, masculine, singular - rust/corrosion/poison
*eis*: preposition + accusative - for/as
*martyrion*: accusative, neuter, singular - testimony/witness
*estai*: future middle, 3rd singular - will be
*phagetai*: future middle, 3rd singular - will eat/consume
*sarkas*: accusative, feminine, plural - flesh
*pyr*: nominative, neuter, singular - fire
*Ethēsaurisate*: aorist active, 2nd plural - you have stored up/treasured
*en*: preposition + dative - in
*eschatais*: dative, feminine, plural - last
*hēmerais*: dative, feminine, plural - days

Word Meanings

*katiōtai*: has been corroded/rusted/tarnished
*ios*: rust/corrosion/poison/venom
*martyrion*: testimony/witness/evidence
*phagetai*: will eat/consume/devour
*sarkas*: flesh/bodies
*Ethēsaurisate*: you have stored up/treasured/hoarded
*eschatais hēmerais*: last days/final days/end times

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Rom 2:5 : 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2 Tim 2:17 : 17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Gen 31:48 : 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Gen 31:52 : 52 This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Gen 49:1 : 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Deut 32:33-34 : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Job 14:16-17 : 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 16:8 : 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Mic 3:3 : 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Mic 4:1 : 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
Acts 2:17 : 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Rev 17:16 : 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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