John 1:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Θεὸν Οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν πώποτε· ὁ μονογενὴς Υἱός, ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ Πατρός, ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο.

Transliteration

Theon Oudeis heōraken pōpote; the monogenēs Huios, the one ōn in the kolpon of the Patros, ekeinos exēgēsato.

Grammar Details

• *Theon*: accusative masculine singular - God
• *Oudeis*: nominative masculine singular - no one
• *heōraken*: perfect active indicative 3rd person singular of *horaō* - has seen
• *pōpote*: adverb - at any time/ever
• *monogenēs*: nominative masculine singular - only-begotten/unique
• *Huios*: nominative masculine singular - Son
• *ōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular of *eimi* - being/who is
• *kolpon*: accusative masculine singular - bosom/heart
• *Patros*: genitive masculine singular - of Father
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative masculine singular - that one/he
• *exēgēsato*: aorist middle indicative 3rd person singular of *exēgeomai* - explained/declared/revealed

Word Meanings

• *heōraken*: has seen/perceived/experienced
• *monogenēs*: only-begotten/unique/one-of-a-kind
• *kolpon*: bosom/chest/heart/intimate position
• *exēgēsato*: explained/declared/revealed/made known

Other Translations

• claude3.7

  God no one has seen at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, that one has declared him.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  No one has ever seen God; the one and only Son, who is in the closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  No man{G3762} hath seen{G3708} God{G2316} at any time;{G4455} the only begotten{G3439} Son,{G5207} who{G3588} is{G5607} in{G1519} the bosom{G2859} of the Father,{G3962} he{G1565} hath declared{G1834} [him].

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  No man{G3762} hath seen{G3708}{(G5758)} God{G2316} at any time{G4455}; the only begotten{G3439} Son{G5207}, which{G3588} is{G5607}{(G5752)} in{G1519} the bosom{G2859} of the Father{G3962}, he{G1565} hath declared{G1834}{(G5662)} him.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  No ma hath sene God at eny tyme. The only begotte sonne which is in ye bosome of ye father he hath declared him.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  No man hath sene God at eny tyme. The onely begotte sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared the same vnto vs.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  No man hath seene God at any time: that onely begotten Sonne, which is in the bosome of the Father, he hath declared him.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared `him'.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him] .

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

• World English Bible (2000)

  No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

Referenced Verses

• Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.
• John 6:46 : 46 Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God, he has seen the Father.
• 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see: to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
• 1 John 4:9 : 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son will reveal him.
• Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
• 1 John 4:20 : 20 If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
• Exod 33:18-23 : 18 And he said, I beseech you, show me your glory. 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 And he said, You cannot see my face: for no man shall see me, and live. 21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand upon a rock: 22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by: 23 And I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth," 7 "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
• Num 12:8 : 8 'With him I will speak face to face, clearly, and not in dark speeches; and he will see the likeness of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?'
• Deut 4:12 : 12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; only you heard a voice.
• Josh 5:13-6:2 : 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, No; but as captain of the army of the LORD have I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD's army said to Joshua, Take your shoe off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. 1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2 And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, and its king, and the mighty men of valor.
• Gen 32:28-30 : 28 And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed. 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray, your name. And he said, Why is it that you ask about my name? And he blessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
• Gen 48:15-16 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
• Exod 3:4-6 : 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. 5 And he said, Do not draw near here; take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.
• Exod 23:21 : 21 Beware of him and obey his voice; do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.
• Gen 16:13 : 13 And she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You are the God who sees; for she said, Have I also here seen him who sees me?
• Isa 6:1-3 : 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.
• Isa 40:11 : 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
• 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
• John 14:9 : 9 Jesus said to him, Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; and how do you say then, Show us the Father?
• John 12:41 : 41 These things Isaiah said when he saw his glory and spoke of him.
• Ezek 1:26-28 : 26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire all around within it, from the appearance of his waist even upward, and from the appearance of his waist even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness all around. 28 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one speaking.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
• Hos 12:3-5 : 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: 4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept and made supplication to him; he found him in Bethel, and there He spoke with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is His memorial.
• Luke 16:22-23 : 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
• John 13:23 : 23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
• John 3:16-18 : 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
• John 17:6 : 6 I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word.
• Lam 2:12 : 12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out in their mothers' bosom.
• Gen 18:33 : 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
• Judg 6:12-26 : 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you? 15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. 16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man. 17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me. 18 Depart not hence, I pray you, until I come unto you, and bring forth my offering, and set it before you. And he said, I will wait until you come again. 19 And Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: he put the meat in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight. 22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. 23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto you; fear not: you shall not die. 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take your father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26 And build an altar unto the LORD your God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you shall cut down.
• Judg 13:20-23 : 20 For it happened, when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife watched it and fell on their faces to the ground. 21 But the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. 23 But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, nor would he have shown us all these things, nor would he at this time have told us such things as these.
• Prov 8:30 : 30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,