Luke 10:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you shall be brought down to hell.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ σύ, Καπερναούμ, ἡ ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθεῖσα, ἕως ᾅδου καταβιβασθήσῃ.

Transliteration

And you, Kapernaoum, the heōs the ouranou hypsōtheisa, heōs hadou katabibasthēsē.

Grammar Details

• *heōs*: preposition + genitive - until/to/as far as
• *ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven
• *hypsōtheisa*: aorist passive participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having been exalted/lifted up
• *hadou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Hades/underworld
• *katabibasthēsē*: future passive indicative, 2nd singular - you will be brought down

Word Meanings

• *heōs*: until/to/as far as
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky
• *hypsōtheisa*: having been exalted/lifted up/raised high
• *hadou*: Hades/underworld/place of the dead
• *katabibasthēsē*: you will be brought down/lowered/cast down

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And thou Capernau which art exalted to heave shalt be thrust doune to hell.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And thou Capernaum which art exalted vnto the heauen, shalt be thrust downe vnto hell.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heauen, shalt be thrust downe to hell.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And thou Capernaum, which art exalted to heauen, shalt be thrust downe to hell.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.{Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell.}

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

Referenced Verses

• Isa 14:13-15 : 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
• Matt 4:13 : 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea coast, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,
• Matt 10:28 : 28 And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Matt 11:23 : 23 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
• Gen 11:4 : 4 And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
• Deut 1:28 : 28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
• Isa 5:14 : 14 Therefore hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.
• Luke 7:1-2 : 1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. 2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick, and ready to die.
• Luke 13:28 : 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
• Luke 16:23 : 23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
• Jer 51:53 : 53 Though Babylon should ascend to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.
• Ezek 26:20 : 20 when I shall bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of old, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places long desolate, with those who go down to the pit, so that you are not inhabited; and I will set beauty in the land of the living,
• Ezek 28:12-14 : 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created. 14 You are the anointed cherub who covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
• Ezek 31:18 : 18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 32:18 : 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
• Ezek 32:20 : 20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
• Ezek 32:27 : 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
• Amos 9:2-3 : 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
• Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.