Matthew 15:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς ἐνετείλατο, λέγων, Τίμα τὸν πατέρα σοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα: καί, Ὁ κακολογῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα, θανάτῳ τελευτάτω.

Transliteration

The for Theos eneteilato, legōn, Tima the father of you and the mother: and, The [one] kakologōn father or mother, by thanatō let him teleutatō.

Grammar Details

*ho gar*: for the/because the
*Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
*eneteilato*: aorist, indicative, middle, 3rd person singular - he commanded
*legōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
*Tima*: present imperative, active, 2nd person singular - honor
*patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - father
*sou*: genitive, singular - of you/your
*kai*: conjunction - and
*mētera*: accusative, feminine, singular - mother
*ho kakologōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - the one speaking evil of
*ē*: disjunctive conjunction - or
*thanatō*: dative, masculine, singular - by death
*teleutatō*: present imperative, active, 3rd person singular - let him end/die

Word Meanings

*eneteilato*: commanded/ordered/charged
*Tima*: honor/value/respect
*kakologōn*: speaking evil of/cursing/reviling
*thanatō*: death/termination of life
*teleutatō*: let him end/die/expire

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Referenced Verses

Exod 20:12 : 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exod 21:17 : 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Deut 5:16 : 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Lev 20:9 : 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Matt 19:19 : 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Prov 23:22 : 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Matt 4:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Matt 5:17-19 : 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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