Matthew 23:33

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὄφεις, γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, πῶς φύγητε ἀπὸ τῆς κρίσεως τῆς γεέννης;

Transliteration

Opheis, gennēmata echidnōn, how phygēte from the kriseōs of-the geennēs?

Grammar Details

• *Opheis*: vocative, masculine, plural - serpents (direct address)
• *gennēmata*: vocative, neuter, plural - offspring/brood (direct address)
• *echidnōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of vipers
• *pōs*: interrogative adverb - how
• *phygēte*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might escape/flee
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *kriseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of judgment
• *geennēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of Gehenna/hell

Word Meanings

• *Opheis*: serpents/snakes
• *gennēmata*: offspring/brood/children
• *echidnōn*: of vipers/poisonous snakes
• *phygēte*: escape/flee/avoid
• *kriseōs*: judgment/condemnation/sentence
• *geennēs*: Gehenna/hell/place of punishment

Referenced Verses

• Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 12:34 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Luke 3:7 : 7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• Ps 58:3-5 : 3 The wicked are estranged{H8804)} from the womb: they go astray{H8804)} as soon as they be born, speaking{H8802)} lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth{H8686)} her ear; 5 Which will not hearken{H8799)} to the voice of charmers{H8764)}, charming{H8802)} never so wisely{H8794)}.
• Isa 57:3-4 : 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• Heb 2:3 : 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• Heb 10:29 : 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Matt 21:34-35 : 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
• Matt 23:13-15 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.