Mark 4:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡλίου δὲ ἀνατείλαντος, ἐκαυματίσθη· καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν ῥίζαν, ἐξηράνθη.

Transliteration

Hēliou de anateilantos, ekaumatisthē; and through the not echein rizan, exēranthē.

Grammar Details

*Hēliou*: genitive, masculine, singular - sun
*de*: conjunction - but/and
*anateilantos*: aorist active participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having risen
*ekaumatisthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - was scorched
*echein*: present active infinitive - to have
*rizan*: accusative, feminine, singular - root
*exēranthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - was withered/dried up

Word Meanings

*anateilantos*: having risen/come up
*ekaumatisthē*: was scorched/burned
*rizan*: root/rootedness
*exēranthē*: withered/dried up/was parched

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Referenced Verses

Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Rev 7:16 : 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Ps 1:3-4 : 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Ps 92:13-15 : 13 Those that be planted{H8803)} in the house of the LORD shall flourish{H8686)} in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bring forth fruit{H8799)} in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 15 To shew{H8687)} that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness {H8675)} in him.
Song 1:6 : 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Isa 25:4 : 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Jer 17:5-8 : 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Eph 3:17 : 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
2 Thess 2:10 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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