Romans 9:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the scripture says to Pharaoh:“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ τῷ Φαραὼ, Ὅτι Εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐξήγειρά σε, ὅπως ἐνδείξωμαι ἐν σοὶ τὴν δύναμίν μου, καὶ ὅπως διαγγελῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.

Transliteration

For legei the graphē to Pharaō, That For auto touto exēgeira you, hopōs endeixōmai in you the dynamin of me, and hopōs diangelē the onoma of me in pasē the gē.

Grammar Details

• *legei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - says
• *graphē*: nominative, feminine, singular - scripture
• *Pharaō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Pharaoh
• *auto touto*: accusative, neuter, singular - this very thing/for this very purpose
• *exēgeira*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I raised up
• *hopōs*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *endeixōmai*: aorist, subjunctive, middle, 1st person singular - I might display
• *dynamin*: accusative, feminine, singular - power
• *diangelē*: aorist, subjunctive, passive, 3rd person singular - might be proclaimed
• *onoma*: nominative, neuter, singular - name
• *pasē*: adjective, dative, feminine, singular - all
• *gē*: dative, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *graphē*: scripture/writing
• *exēgeira*: I raised up/I brought you to this position
• *endeixōmai*: I might display/show/demonstrate
• *dynamin*: power/might/strength
• *diangelē*: might be proclaimed/announced/declared
• *onoma*: name/reputation/character
• *pasē*: all/whole/entire
• *gē*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:16 : 16 But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.
• Prov 16:4 : 4 The LORD has worked everything for his own ends– even the wicked for the day of disaster.
• John 17:26 : 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
• Rom 11:4 : 4 But what was the divine response to him?“I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”
• Gal 3:8 : 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”
• Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.
• Gal 4:30 : 30 But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman.
• Isa 10:5-6 : 5 The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish. 6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
• Isa 37:20 : 20 Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD.”
• Isa 45:1-3 : 1 This is what the LORD says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed: 2 “I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through. 3 I will give you hidden treasures, riches stashed away in secret places, so you may recognize that I am the LORD, the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.
• Jer 27:6-7 : 6 I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him. 7 All nations must serve him and his son and grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon.
• Dan 4:22 : 22 it is you, O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.
• Dan 5:18-21 : 18 As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty. 19 Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished. 20 And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him. 21 He was driven from human society, his mind was changed to that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.
• Exod 10:1-2 : 1 The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him, 2 and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.”
• Exod 14:17-18 : 17 And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
• Exod 15:14-15 : 14 The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified, trembling will seize the leaders of Moab, and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.
• Exod 18:10-11 : 10 Jethro said,“Blessed be the LORD who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control! 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”
• Josh 2:9-9 : 9 She said to the men,“I know the LORD is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you. 10 For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.
• Josh 9:9 : 9 They told him,“Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the LORD your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts. 8 He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes– he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD– he placed the world on them.
• 1 Sam 4:8 : 8 Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!
• Esth 4:14 : 14 If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!”
• Ps 83:17-18 : 17 May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame! 18 Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.