Mark 3:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

καὶ ἔρχονται εἴς οἶκον. ⋄Καὶ συνέρχεται πάλιν ὄχλος, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς μήτε ἄρτον φαγεῖν.

Transliteration

and they erchontai into oikon. And synerchetai again ochlos, hōste not to be able dynasthai them neither arton to phagein.

Grammar Details

• *erchontai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd plural - come/go [ongoing action]
• *oikon*: accusative, masculine, singular - house/home [direction]
• *synerchetai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd singular - comes together/gathers [ongoing action]
• *ochlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - crowd [subject]
• *hōste*: conjunction - so that/with the result that [result]
• *dynasthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to be able [ongoing ability]
• *arton*: accusative, masculine, singular - bread/food [direct object]
• *phagein*: aorist active infinitive - to eat [completed action]

Word Meanings

• *erchontai*: come/go/arrive
• *oikon*: house/home/household
• *synerchetai*: comes together/assembles/gathers
• *ochlos*: crowd/multitude/throng
• *dynasthai*: to be able/have power/be strong enough
• *arton*: bread/food/loaf
• *phagein*: to eat/consume

Referenced Verses

• Mark 6:31 : 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
• John 4:31-34 : 31 {G1161} In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. 33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• Mark 3:7 : 7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
• Mark 3:9 : 9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
• Mark 7:17 : 17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
• Mark 9:28 : 28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
• Luke 6:17 : 17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;