Mark 6:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡ δὲ ἐξελθοῦσα, εἶπεν τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς, Τί αἰτήσομαι; Ἡ δὲ εἶπεν, Τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτίστου.

Transliteration

She de exelthousa, eipen to the mētri of her, What aitēsomai? She de eipen, The kephalēn of Iōannou the Baptistou.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *exelthousa*: aorist participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having gone out
• *eipen*: aorist, active, 3rd person, singular - said
• *mētri*: dative, feminine, singular - to mother
• *aitēsomai*: future, middle, 1st person, singular - I will ask for myself
• *kephalēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - head
• *Iōannou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of John
• *Baptistou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Baptist

Word Meanings

• *de*: but/and/now (transitional particle)
• *exelthousa*: having gone out/having departed
• *aitēsomai*: shall I ask/should I request
• *kephalēn*: head

Referenced Verses

• Gen 27:8-9 : 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. 9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
• 2 Chr 22:3-4 : 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. 4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
• Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
• Ps 27:2 : 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
• Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth{H8802)} upon him with his teeth.
• Ps 37:14 : 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent{H8804)} their bow, to cast down{H8687)} the poor and needy, and to slay{H8800)} such as be of upright conversation.
• Prov 27:3-4 : 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
• Ezek 19:2-3 : 2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
• Matt 14:8 : 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
• Acts 23:12-13 : 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.