Luke 15:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Δαπανήσαντος δὲ αὐτοῦ πάντα, ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἰσχυρὸς κατὰ τὴν χώραν ἐκείνην· καὶ αὐτὸς ἤρξατο ὑστερεῖσθαι.

Transliteration

Dapanēsantos de him panta, egeneto limos ischyros throughout the chōran that; and he ērxato hystereisthai.

Grammar Details

• *Dapanēsantos*: aorist active participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having spent
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• αὐτοῦ: personal pronoun, genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *panta*: adjective, neuter plural, accusative - all things
• *egeneto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - there arose/happened
• *limos*: noun, masculine singular, nominative - famine/hunger
• *ischyros*: adjective, masculine singular, nominative - severe/mighty
• *chōran*: noun, feminine singular, accusative - country/region
• ἐκείνην: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular, accusative - that
• *ērxato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - he began
• *hystereisthai*: present passive infinitive - to be in want/lack

Word Meanings

• *Dapanēsantos*: having spent/consumed/used up
• *panta*: all things/everything
• *egeneto*: arose/happened/came to be
• *limos*: famine/hunger/severe food shortage
• *ischyros*: severe/mighty/strong/powerful
• *chōran*: country/region/land
• *ērxato*: began/started
• *hystereisthai*: to be in want/to lack/to be deficient/to suffer need

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  After he had spent everything, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And when he had spent all that he had ther rose a greate derth thorow out all yt same londe and he began to lacke.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Now whan he had spent all that he had, there was a greate derth thorow out all the same lode. And he begane to lacke,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nowe when hee had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessitie.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And when he had spent all, there arose a great dearth in all that lande, and he began to lacke.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.

• World English Bible (2000)

  When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
• Ezek 16:27 : 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
• Hos 2:9-9 : 9 Therefore I will return, and take away my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 10 And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand. 11 I will also cause all her joy to stop, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
• Amos 8:9-9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight: 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. 11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.