2 Corinthians 11:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

In weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν κόπῳ καὶ μόχθῳ, ἐν ἀγρυπνίαις πολλάκις, ἐν λιμῷ καὶ δίψει, ἐν νηστείαις πολλάκις, ἐν ψύχει καὶ γυμνότητι.

Transliteration

In kopō and mochthō, in agrypniais pollakis, in limō and dipsei, in nēsteiais pollakis, in psychei and gymnotēti.

Grammar Details

• *kopō*: dative, masculine, singular - labor/toil
• *mochthō*: dative, masculine, singular - hardship/trouble
• *agrypniais*: dative, feminine, plural - sleeplessness/watchings
• *pollakis*: adverb - often/frequently
• *limō*: dative, masculine, singular - hunger/famine
• *dipsei*: dative, feminine, singular - thirst
• *nēsteiais*: dative, feminine, plural - fastings
• *psychei*: dative, neuter, singular - cold
• *gymnotēti*: dative, feminine, singular - nakedness/insufficient clothing

Word Meanings

• *kopō*: labor/toil/trouble
• *mochthō*: hardship/trouble/difficulty
• *agrypniais*: sleeplessness/watchings/staying awake
• *limō*: hunger/famine
• *dipsei*: thirst
• *nēsteiais*: fastings/going without food
• *psychei*: cold/coldness
• *gymnotēti*: nakedness/insufficient clothing/exposure

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I have labored and toiled and often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in colde and in nakednesse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  `in' labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

• World English Bible (2000)

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
• Phil 4:12 : 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: for working night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
• 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but we worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
• 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it.
• 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
• Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
• Acts 20:34-35 : 34 Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me. 35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
• Rom 8:35-36 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.'
• Jer 38:9 : 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.
• Acts 13:2-3 : 2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. 3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
• Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
• Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—
• Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
• 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
• Acts 20:5-9 : 5 These men, going ahead, waited for us at Troas. 6 But we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and joined them at Troas in five days; where we stayed seven days. 7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them, ready to depart the next day, and continued his message until midnight. 8 There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered. 9 And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. As Paul continued speaking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. 10 But Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, "Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him." 11 Now when he had come up, and had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even till daybreak, he departed.