Matthew 14:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡ δέ, προβιβασθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῆς, Δός μοι, φησίν, ὧδε ἐπὶ πίνακι τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ.

Transliteration

But she, probibastheisa by the mētros of her, Give to me, phēsin, here upon pinaki the kephalēn of Iōannou the Baptistou.

Grammar Details

• *probibastheisa*: aorist, passive, participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having been prompted
• *mētros*: genitive, feminine, singular - mother
• *phēsin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - she says
• *pinaki*: dative, masculine, singular - plate/platter
• *kephalēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - head
• *Iōannou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of John
• *Baptistou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Baptist

Word Meanings

• *probibastheisa*: having been prompted/instructed/urged forward
• *phēsin*: says/states/declares
• *pinaki*: plate/platter/dish

Referenced Verses

• Prov 29:10 : 10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
• Mark 6:24 : 24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
• Num 7:13 : 13 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
• Num 7:19 : 19 He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
• Num 7:84-85 : 84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: 85 Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
• 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
• 1 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
• 1 Kgs 19:2 : 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
• 2 Kgs 11:1 : 1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
• 2 Chr 22:2-3 : 2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
• Ezra 1:9 : 9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
• Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.