Matthew 15:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν, Οὐκ ἔστιν καλὸν λαβεῖν τὸν ἄρτον τῶν τέκνων, καὶ βαλεῖν τοῖς κυναρίοις.

Transliteration

He de apokritheis eipen, Not estin kalon to labein the arton of the teknōn, and to balein to the kunariois.

Grammar Details

*Ho de*: but he
*apokritheis*: aorist participle, passive, nominative, masculine, singular - having answered
*eipen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - he said
*Ouk*: negative particle - not
*estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - it is
*kalon*: adjective, nominative, neuter, singular - good/right
*labein*: aorist infinitive, active - to take
*ton arton*: accusative, masculine, singular - the bread
*tōn teknōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of the children
*kai*: conjunction - and
*balein*: aorist infinitive, active - to throw
*tois kunariois*: dative, neuter, plural - to the little dogs

Word Meanings

*apokritheis*: having answered/responded
*eipen*: said/spoke/told
*estin*: is/exists
*kalon*: good/right/proper
*labein*: to take/receive/accept
*arton*: bread/loaf/food
*teknōn*: children/offspring
*balein*: to throw/cast/toss
*kunariois*: little dogs/puppies/house dogs

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Rev 22:15 : 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Matt 7:6 : 6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Mark 7:27-28 : 27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Acts 22:21-22 : 21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Rom 9:4 : 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Gal 2:15 : 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Eph 2:12 : 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

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