Philippians 3:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἴ πως καταντήσω εἰς τὴν ἐξανάστασιν τῶν νεκρῶν.

Transliteration

If somehow katantēsō unto the exanastasin of the nekrōn.

Grammar Details

• *katantēsō*: subjunctive, aorist, active, 1st person singular - I might attain/reach
• *exanastasin*: accusative, feminine, singular - resurrection
• *nekrōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of dead ones

Word Meanings

• *katantēsō*: attain/reach/arrive at
• *exanastasin*: resurrection/rising up [special term different from common *anastasis*]
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses

Referenced Verses

• Luke 20:35-36 : 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
• Acts 26:7 : 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
• Rev 20:5 : 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
• 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
• Heb 11:35 : 35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
• John 11:24 : 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
• Acts 23:6 : 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
• Ps 49:7 : 7 None of them can by any means{H8800)} redeem{H8799)} his brother, nor give{H8799)} to God a ransom for him:
• Luke 14:14 : 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
• Acts 27:12 : 12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
• Rom 11:14 : 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
• 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• 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.
• 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.