Romans 8:36

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As it is written , For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθὼς γέγραπται, ὅτι Ἕνεκά σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν· ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.

Transliteration

Kathōs gegraptai, hoti Heneka sou thanatoumetha holēn tēn hēmeran; elogisthēmen hōs probata sphagēs.

Grammar Details

*Kathōs*: subordinating conjunction - just as
*gegraptai*: perfect passive indicative 3rd person singular - it has been written
*hoti*: conjunction - that
*Heneka*: preposition with genitive - for the sake of
*sou*: genitive 2nd person singular - you
*thanatoumetha*: present passive indicative 1st person plural - we are being put to death
*holēn*: accusative feminine singular - whole/all
*tēn hēmeran*: accusative feminine singular - the day
*elogisthēmen*: aorist passive indicative 1st person plural - we were considered
*hōs*: comparative particle - as/like
*probata*: nominative neuter plural - sheep
*sphagēs*: genitive feminine singular - of slaughter

Word Meanings

*gegraptai*: it has been written [perfect passive - completed action with continuing results]
*Heneka sou*: for your sake/on account of you
*thanatoumetha*: we are being put to death/killed [ongoing passive]
*holēn tēn hēmeran*: all day long/the whole day
*elogisthēmen*: we were considered/reckoned/regarded [completed passive action]
*probata sphagēs*: sheep of slaughter/sheep for slaughtering

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Referenced Verses

Ps 44:22 : 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed{H8795)} all the day long; we are counted{H8738)} as sheep for the slaughter.
1 Cor 15:30 : 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Acts 8:32 : 32 {G1161} The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Acts 20:24 : 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Ps 141:7 : 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

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