Luke 1:79

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπιφᾶναι τοῖς ἐν σκότει καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτου καθημένοις, τοῦ κατευθῦναι τοὺς πόδας ἡμῶν εἰς ὁδὸν εἰρήνης.

Transliteration

To epiphanai to the ones in skotei and skia of thanatou kathēmenois, of the kateuthynai the podas our into hodon of eirēnēs.

Grammar Details

• *epiphanai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to give light/to shine upon
• *tois*: dative, masculine, plural, article - to the ones
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *skotei*: dative, neuter, singular - darkness
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *skia*: dative, feminine, singular - shadow
• *thanatou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of death
• *kathēmenois*: present, middle, participle, dative, masculine, plural - sitting/dwelling
• *tou*: genitive, article with infinitive expressing purpose - to/in order to
• *kateuthynai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to guide/direct/make straight
• *tous*: accusative, masculine, plural, article - the
• *podas*: accusative, masculine, plural - feet
• *hēmōn*: genitive, first person, plural pronoun - our
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - into/toward
• *hodon*: accusative, feminine, singular - way/path/road/journey
• *eirēnēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of peace

Word Meanings

• *epiphanai*: to shine upon/give light/appear/be manifested
• *skotei*: darkness/obscurity
• *skia*: shadow/shade/dark place
• *kathēmenois*: sitting/dwelling/remaining
• *kateuthynai*: to guide/direct/make straight
• *hodon*: way/path/road/journey
• *eirēnēs*: peace/harmony/security/safety

Referenced Verses

• Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Rom 3:17 : 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
• Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
• John 9:5 : 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
• Isa 59:8 : 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
• Isa 42:7 : 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
• Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
• Ps 85:10-13 : 10 Mercy and truth are met together{H8738)}; righteousness and peace have kissed{H8804)} each other. 11 Truth shall spring out{H8799)} of the earth; and righteousness shall look down{H8738)} from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give{H8799)} that which is good; and our land shall yield{H8799)} her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go{H8762)} before him; and shall set{H8799)} us in the way of his steps.
• Ps 107:10 : 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
• Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
• Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
• Prov 8:20 : 20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
• Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
• Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
• Ps 44:19 : 19 Though thou hast sore broken{H8765)} us in the place of dragons, and covered{H8762)} us with the shadow of death.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Isa 48:22 : 22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
• Isa 49:6 : 6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
• Isa 49:9 : 9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
• Isa 57:19-21 : 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
• Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
• Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
• Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
• Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
• Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
• John 1:9 : 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
• John 12:46 : 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
• Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
• 1 Thess 5:4-5 : 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
• 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• Job 10:22 : 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.