Luke 8:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Προσελθόντες δὲ, διήγειραν αὐτόν, λέγοντες, Ἐπιστάτα, ἐπιστάτα, ἀπολλύμεθα. Ὁ δὲ ἐγερθεὶς, ἐπετίμησεν τῷ ἀνέμῳ καὶ τῷ κλύδωνι τοῦ ὕδατος: καὶ ἐπαύσαντο, καὶ ἐγένετο γαλήνη.

Transliteration

Proselthontes de, diēgeiran him, legontes, Epistata, epistata, apollymetha. He de egertheis, epetimēsen the anemō and the klydōni of the hydatos: and epausanto, and egeneto galēnē.

Grammar Details

• *Proselthontes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having come to/approached
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *diēgeiran*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they aroused/awakened
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - saying
• *Epistata*: vocative masculine singular - Master/Teacher
• *apollymetha*: present middle indicative, 1st person plural - we are perishing/being destroyed
• *egertheis*: aorist passive participle, nominative masculine singular - having been awakened/raised
• *epetimēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - rebuked/commanded
• *anemō*: dative masculine singular - to the wind
• *klydōni*: dative masculine singular - to the wave/surge
• *hydatos*: genitive neuter singular - of water
• *epausanto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person plural - they ceased/stopped
• *egeneto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - became/came to be
• *galēnē*: nominative feminine singular - calm/tranquility

Word Meanings

• *Proselthontes*: having come to/approached/came forward
• *diēgeiran*: aroused/awakened/roused completely
• *Epistata*: Master/Teacher/Commander
• *apollymetha*: we are perishing/being destroyed/dying
• *egertheis*: having been awakened/raised/gotten up
• *epetimēsen*: rebuked/commanded/censured severely
• *klydōni*: wave/surge/billowing
• *epausanto*: ceased/stopped/desisted
• *galēnē*: calm/tranquility/stillness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 65:7 : 7 Which stilleth{H8688)} the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
• Luke 4:39 : 39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
• 2 Cor 1:9-9 : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
• Luke 5:5 : 5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
• John 2:2-6 : 2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. 4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. 5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. 6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
• Ps 69:1-2 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)} upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save{H8685)} me, O God; for the waters are come{H8804)} in unto my soul. 2 I sink{H8804)} in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come{H8804)} into deep waters, where the floods overflow{H8804)} me.
• Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
• Ps 107:25-29 : 25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
• Ps 116:3-4 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
• Ps 142:4-5 : 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
• Isa 50:2 : 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
• Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
• Lam 3:54-56 : 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
• Nah 1:4 : 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
• Matt 14:30 : 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.