Luke 8:43

KJV1611 – Modern English

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γυνὴ οὖσα ἐν ῥύσει αἵματος ἀπὸ ἐτῶν δώδεκα, ἥτις εἰς ἰατροὺς προσαναλώσασα ὅλον τὸν βίον, οὐκ ἴσχυσεν ὑπʼ οὐδενὸς θεραπευθῆναι,

Transliteration

And gynē ousa in rhysei of haimatos from etōn dōdeka, who to iatrous prosanalōsasa whole the bion, not ischysen by no one therapeuthēnai,

Grammar Details

• *gynē*: nominative, feminine, singular - woman
• *ousa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - being
• *rhysei*: dative, feminine, singular - flow/discharge
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of blood
• *etōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of years
• *dōdeka*: cardinal numeral - twelve
• *iatrous*: accusative, masculine, plural - physicians/doctors
• *prosanalōsasa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having spent
• *bion*: accusative, masculine, singular - livelihood/life/means
• *ischysen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - was able/had strength
• *therapeuthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be healed/cured

Word Meanings

• *gynē*: woman/wife
• *ousa*: being/existing
• *rhysei*: flow/discharge/hemorrhage
• *haimatos*: blood/bloodshed
• *etōn*: years
• *dōdeka*: twelve
• *iatrous*: physicians/doctors/healers
• *prosanalōsasa*: having spent/consumed/used up
• *bion*: livelihood/life/means of living
• *ischysen*: was able/had strength/succeeded
• *therapeuthēnai*: to be healed/cured/treated

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  And a woman who had been suffering from bleeding for twelve years, and had spent all she had on physicians but could not be healed by anyone,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And a woman having {G1722} an issue of blood {G575} twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And a woman havynge an issue of bloud twelve yeres (which had spent all her substance amonge phisicios nether coulde be holpen of eny)

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And a woma hauynge the bloudyssue twolue yeares, (which had spent all hir substaunte vpon phisicians, and coude be healed of none)

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And a woman hauing an yssue of blood, twelue yeeres long, which had spent all her substance vpon physicians, and could not be healed of any:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And a woman, hauyng an issue of blood twelue yeres, which had spent all her substaunce vpon phisitions, neither coulde be holpen of any,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well,

• World English Bible (2000)

  A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:20-22 : 20 And behold, a woman, who was diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. 21 For she said within herself, If I may only touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22 But Jesus turned and saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; your faith has made you whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
• Mark 5:25-26 : 25 And a certain woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years, 26 And had suffered many things from many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
• Acts 3:2 : 2 And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who entered the temple;
• Acts 4:22 : 22 For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
• Acts 14:8-9 : 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, powerless in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked. 9 This man heard Paul speaking, who, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped up and walked.
• 2 Chr 16:12 : 12 And Asa, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet, until his disease was very severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but the physicians.
• Job 13:4 : 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.
• Ps 108:12 : 12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
• Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for how much is he to be accounted of?
• Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
• Mark 9:18 : 18 And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid; and I spoke to your disciples that they should cast it out, but they could not.
• Mark 9:21-22 : 21 And he asked his father, How long has this been happening to him? And he said, From childhood. 22 And often it has thrown him into the fire and into the water to destroy him; but if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.
• Luke 8:27 : 27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, who had demons a long time, and wore no clothes, neither lived in any house, but in the tombs.
• Luke 13:11 : 11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and was bent over, and could in no way raise herself up.
• Luke 13:16 : 16 And should not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, indeed these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
• John 5:5-6 : 5 And a certain man was there who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, He said to him, 'Do you want to be made whole?'
• John 9:1 : 1 As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth.
• John 9:21 : 21 But by what means he now sees, we do not know; or who has opened his eyes, we do not know: he is of age; ask him: he will speak for himself.
• Lev 15:25-33 : 25 And if a woman has an issue of her blood for many days outside of the time of her separation, or if it runs beyond the time of her separation; all the days of her issue of uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. 26 Every bed where she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her separation: and whatever she sits upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. 27 And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 28 But if she is cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. 32 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose seed goes from him, and is defiled by it; 33 And of her that is sick of her impurity, and of him that has an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lies with her that is unclean.