John 7:49

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος ὁ μὴ γινώσκων τὸν νόμον ἐπικατάρατοι εἰσιν.

Transliteration

All' the ochlos houtos the mē ginōskōn ton nomon epikataratoi eisin.

Grammar Details

• *All'*: contraction of *alla* - but/however
• *ochlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - crowd/multitude
• *houtos*: nominative, masculine, singular, demonstrative pronoun - this
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *ginōskōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - knowing
• *ton nomon*: accusative, masculine, singular - the law
• *epikataratoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - accursed/under a curse
• *eisin*: present, indicative, 3rd plural - are/exist

Word Meanings

• *All'*: but/however/yet
• *ochlos*: crowd/multitude/throng/common people
• *houtos*: this/these
• *ginōskōn*: knowing/understanding
• *nomon*: law/Torah/legal code
• *epikataratoi*: accursed/under a curse/condemned
• *eisin*: are/exist

Referenced Verses

• Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• Isa 28:14 : 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
• Isa 29:14-19 : 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 65:5 : 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
• John 9:34 : 34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
• John 9:40 : 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
• 1 Cor 1:20-21 : 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
• 1 Cor 3:18-20 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.