Matthew 3:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὗ τὸ πτύον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ διακαθαριεῖ τὴν ἅλωνα αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνάξει τὸν σῖτον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην· τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.

Transliteration

Of whom the ptyon in the cheiri of him, and diakathariei the halōna of him, and synaxei the siton of him into the apothēkēn; the de achyron katakausei pyri asbestō.

Grammar Details

• *ptyon*: nominative, neuter, singular - winnowing fork/fan
• *cheiri*: dative, feminine, singular - in hand
• *diakathariei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will thoroughly clean
• *halōna*: accusative, feminine, singular - threshing floor
• *synaxei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will gather
• *siton*: accusative, masculine, singular - wheat/grain
• *apothēkēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - barn/storehouse
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *achyron*: accusative, neuter, singular - chaff
• *katakausei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will burn up
• *pyri*: dative, neuter, singular - with fire
• *asbestō*: dative, neuter, singular - unquenchable

Word Meanings

• *ptyon*: winnowing fork/fan/shovel
• *diakathariei*: will thoroughly clean/will clear completely/will purge
• *halōna*: threshing floor/threshing area
• *synaxei*: will gather/will collect/will bring together
• *siton*: wheat/grain/corn
• *apothēkēn*: barn/storehouse/granary
• *achyron*: chaff/straw/husks
• *katakausei*: will burn up/will consume with fire/will incinerate
• *asbestō*: unquenchable/inextinguishable/that cannot be put out

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  whose{G3739} fan{G4425} is in{G1722} his{G846} hand,{G5495} and{G2532} he will thoroughly cleanse{G1245} his{G846} threshing-floor;{G257} and{G2532} he will gather{G4863} his{G846} wheat{G4621} into{G1519} the garner,{G596} but{G1161} the chaff{G892} he will burn up{G2618} with unquenchable{G762} fire.{G4442}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Whose{G3739} fan{G4425} is in{G1722} his{G846} hand{G5495}, and{G2532} he will throughly purge{G1245}{(G5692)} his{G846} floor{G257}, and{G2532} gather{G4863}{(G5692)} his{G846} wheat{G4621} into{G1519} the garner{G596}; but{G1161} he will burn up{G2618}{(G5692)} the chaff{G892} with unquenchable{G762} fire{G4442}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  which hath also his fan in his hod and will pourge his floure and gadre ye wheet into his garner and will burne ye chaffe with vnquecheable fyre

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  which hath also his fan in his hond, and will pourge his floore, and gadre the wheet into his garner, & will burne ye chaffe with vnquencheable fyre.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Which hath his fanne in his hand, and wil make cleane his floore, and gather his wheate into his garner, but will burne vp the chaffe with vnquenchable fire.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Whose fanne is in his hande, and he wyll purge his floore, and gather his wheate into his garner: but wyl burne vp the chaffe with vnquencheable fire.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  whose fan `is' in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

• World English Bible (2000)

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”

Referenced Verses

• Mal 4:1 : 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
• Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.
• Jer 7:20 : 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it will burn, and will not be quenched.
• Luke 3:17 : 17 Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
• Isa 41:16 : 16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
• Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
• Jer 51:2 : 2 And I will send to Babylon winnowers, who shall winnow her and empty her land; for in the day of trouble, they shall be against her all around.
• Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
• Isa 1:31 : 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
• Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
• Isa 30:24 : 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
• Isa 66:24 : 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.
• Jer 15:7 : 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.
• Jer 17:27 : 27 But if you will not listen to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
• Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But who may endure the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
• Job 21:18 : 18 They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.
• John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.
• Jer 4:11 : 11 At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
• Ezek 20:47-48 : 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
• Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
• Amos 9:9 : 9 For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
• Matt 13:43 : 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
• Matt 13:49-50 : 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous. 50 And throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Mark 9:43-48 : 43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched; 44 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched; 46 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire; 48 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.