Mark 2:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ Οὐδεὶς ἐπίβλημα ῥάκους ἀγνάφου ἐπιρράπτει ἐπὶ ἱματίῳ παλαιῷ: εἰ δὲ μή αἴρει τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτοῦ τὸ καινὸν τοῦ παλαιοῦ, καὶ χεῖρον σχίσμα γίνεται.

Transliteration

And No one epiblēma of rhakous agnaphou epirrhaptei upon himatiō palaiō: otherwise airei the plērōma of it the kainon from the palaiou, and worse schisma ginetai.

Grammar Details

*Oudeis*: nominative, masculine, singular - no one
*epiblēma*: accusative, neuter, singular - patch
*rhakous*: genitive, neuter, singular - of cloth/rag
*agnaphou*: genitive, neuter, singular - unshrunk/unfulled
*epirrhaptei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - sews on
*himatiō*: dative, neuter, singular - garment
*palaiō*: dative, neuter, singular - old
*airei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - takes away/tears
*plērōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - fullness/patch
*kainon*: nominative, neuter, singular - new
*palaiou*: genitive, neuter, singular - of the old
*schisma*: nominative, neuter, singular - tear/division
*ginetai*: present middle indicative, 3rd singular - becomes/happens

Word Meanings

*epiblēma*: patch/piece sewn on
*rhakous agnaphou*: unshrunk cloth/unfulled fabric
*epirrhaptei*: sews on/attaches
*himatiō palaiō*: old garment/old cloak
*airei*: takes away/tears/pulls
*plērōma*: fullness/patch/filling
*schisma*: tear/rent/division

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Matt 9:16 : 16 {G1161} No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Ps 103:13-15 : 13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

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