Luke 8:43

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.

📖 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

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:20-22 : 20 But a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 For she kept saying to herself,“If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.” 22 But when Jesus turned and saw her he said,“Have courage, daughter! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was healed from that hour.
• Mark 5:25-26 : 25 Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years. 26 She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.
• Acts 3:2 : 2 And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called“the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.
• Acts 4:22 : 22 For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.
• Acts 14:8-9 : 8 Paul and Barnabas at Lystra In Lystra sat a man who could not use his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked. 9 This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed, 10 he said with a loud voice,“Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.
• 2 Chr 16:12 : 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease, he did not seek the LORD, but only the doctors.
• Job 13:4 : 4 But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
• Ps 108:12 : 12 Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.
• Isa 2:22 : 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
• Isa 55:1-3 : 1 The Lord Gives an Invitation“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost! 2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food! 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
• Mark 9:18 : 18 Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to cast it out, but they were not able to do so.”
• Mark 9:21-22 : 21 Jesus asked his father,“How long has this been happening to him?” And he said,“From childhood. 22 It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
• Luke 8:27 : 27 As Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man from the town met him who was possessed by demons. For a long time this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs.
• Luke 13:11 : 11 and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.
• Luke 13:16 : 16 Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”
• John 5:5-6 : 5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him,“Do you want to become well?”
• John 9:1 : 1 Healing a Man Born Blind Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
• John 9:21 : 21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”
• Lev 15:25-33 : 25 “‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation– she is unclean. 26 Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation, 27 and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 28 Purity Regulations from Female Bodily Discharges“‘If she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean. 29 Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, 30 and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for her before the LORD from her discharge of impurity. 31 Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst. 32 This is the law for the one with a discharge: for the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it, 33 for the one who is sick in her menstruation, for the one with a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who goes to bed with an unclean woman.’”