Luke 19:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ προδραμὼν ἔμπροσθεν, ἀνέβη ἐπὶ συκομωραίαν ἵνα ἴδῃ αὐτόν: ὅτι ἐκείνης ἤμελλεν διέρχεσθαι.

Transliteration

And prodramōn emprosthen, he anebē upon sykomoraian in order that he might idē him: because through that way he ēmellen dierchesthai.

Grammar Details

*prodramōn*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having run ahead
*emprosthen*: adverb - ahead/in front
*anebē*: aorist active, 3rd person singular - went up/climbed
*sykomoraian*: accusative, feminine, singular - sycamore-fig tree
*idē*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might see
*ēmellen*: imperfect active, 3rd person singular - was about to/going to
*dierchesthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to pass through

Word Meanings

*prodramōn*: having run ahead/run forward
*sykomoraian*: sycamore-fig tree
*dierchesthai*: to pass through/traverse/go through

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 10:27 : 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
1 Chr 27:28 : 28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
Isa 9:10 : 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Amos 7:14 : 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
Luke 5:19 : 19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
Ps 78:47 : 47 He destroyed{H8799)} their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

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