Luke 10:2

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And he sayde vnto them the harvest is greate: but the laborers are feawe. Praye therfore the Lorde of ye harvest to send forth laborers into his hervest.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔλεγεν οὖν πρὸς αὐτούς, Ὁ μὲν θερισμὸς πολύς, οἱ δὲ ἐργάται ὀλίγοι: δεήθητε οὖν τοῦ Κυρίου τοῦ θερισμοῦ, ὅπως ἐκβάλλῃ ἐργάτας εἰς τὸν θερισμὸν αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

Elegen oun pros them, The men therismos polys, the de ergatai oligoi: deēthēte oun of the Kyriou of the therismou, hopōs ekballē ergatas into the therismon of him.

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd singular - was saying/kept saying
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/so
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *men*: postpositive particle marking contrast with *de* - on one hand
• *therismos*: nominative, masculine, singular - harvest
• *polys*: nominative, masculine, singular - much/great/abundant
• *de*: postpositive conjunction marking contrast with *men* - but/and/on the other hand
• *ergatai*: nominative, masculine, plural - workers/laborers
• *oligoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - few/little
• *deēthēte*: aorist passive imperative, 2nd plural - request/beseech/pray to
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Lord/Master
• *therismou*: genitive, masculine, singular - harvest
• *hopōs*: conjunction + subjunctive - so that/in order that
• *ekballē*: present active subjunctive, 3rd singular - send out/thrust out
• *ergatas*: accusative, masculine, plural - workers/laborers
• *therismon*: accusative, masculine, singular - harvest

Word Meanings

• *Elegen*: was saying/kept saying/continued to say
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *therismos*: harvest/crop/reaping
• *polys*: much/great/abundant/plentiful
• *ergatai*: workers/laborers/those who work
• *deēthēte*: request/beseech/pray to/ask earnestly
• *Kyriou*: Lord/Master/Owner
• *ekballē*: send out/thrust out/drive out/push out

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:36-38 : 36 But when he sawe the people he had copassion on the because they were pyned awaye and scattered abroade eve as shepe havige no shepherd. 37 Then sayde he to hys disciples: the hervest is greate but the laborers are feawe. 38 Wherfore praye the Lorde of the harvest to sende forthe laborers into hys harvest.
• 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For therfore we laboure and suffre rebuke because we beleve in the livynge god which is the savioure of all men: but specially of those that beleve.
• 1 Tim 4:15-16 : 15 These thynges exercyse and geve thy silfe vnto them that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges. 16 Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do thou shalt save thy silfe and them that heare the.
• 1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I have planted: Apollo watred: but god gave increace. 7 So then nether is he that planteth eny thinge nether he yt watreth: but god which gave the increace. 8 He that planteth and he that watreth are nether better then the other. Every man yet shall receave his rewarde accordynge to his laboure. 9 We are goddis labourers ye are goddis husbandrye ye are goddis byldynge.
• 2 Thess 3:1 : 1 Furthermore brethren praye for vs yt the worde of god maye have fre passage and be gloryfied as it is with you:
• 1 Tim 1:12-14 : 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hath made me stronge: for he counted me true and put me in office 13 when before I was a blasphemar and a persecuter and a tyraut. But I obtayned mercy because I dyd it ignorautly thorow vnbelefe. 14 Neverthelater the grace of oure Lorde was more aboundaunt with fayth and love which is in Christ Iesu.
• 1 Thess 5:12 : 12 We beseche you brethren that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you and have the oversight of you in the Lorde
• John 4:35-38 : 35 Saye not ye: there are yet foure monethes and then cometh harvest? Beholde I saye vnto you lyfte vp youre eyes and loke on ye regios: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest. 36 And he ye repeth receaveth rewarde and gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he that soweth and he yt repeth myght reioyse to gether. 37 And herin is the sayinge true yt one soweth and another repeth. 38 I sent you to repe yt whero ye bestowed no laboure. Other men laboured and ye are entred into their labours.
• Mark 16:15 : 15 And he sayd vnto them: Goo ye in to all the worlde and preache the glad tyges to all creatures
• Mark 16:20 : 20 And they went forth and preached every where. And the Lorde wrought with them and confirmed the worde with miracles that folowed.
• Luke 9:1 : 1 Then called he the.xii. to gether and gave them power and auctorite over all devyls and that they myght heale diseases.
• Acts 26:15-18 : 15 And I sayde: Who arte thou LORde? And he sayde I am Iesus whom thou persecutest. 16 But ryse and stond vp on thy fete. For I have apered vnto the for this purpose to make the a minister and a witnes both of tho thinges which thou hast sene and of tho thinges in the which I will appere vnto the 17 delyverynge the from the people and from ye gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the 18 to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght and from the power of Satan vnto God that they maye receave forgevenes of synnes and inheritauce amonge the which are sanctified by fayth in me.
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 Ye remember brethre oure laboure and travayle. For we laboured daye and nyght because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you and preached vnto you ye gospell of God.
• Matt 20:1 : 1 For the kyngdome of heven ys lyke vnto an houssholder which went out erly in the morninge to hyre labourers into hys vyneyarde.
• Mark 13:34 : 34 As a man which is gone in to a straunge countrey and hath lefte hys housse and geven auctorite to his servautes and to every man hys worke and commaunded the porter to watche.
• Num 11:17 : 17 And I wyll come doune and talke with the there and take of yt spirite which is apon the and put apon them ad they shall bere with the in the burthen of the people and so shalt thou not beare alone.
• Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses sayed vnto him: enuyest thou for my sake? wolde God that all the Lordes people coude prophecye and that the Lorde wolde put his spirite apon them.
• 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 The elders yt rule wel are worthy of double honoure most specially they which laboure in ye worde and in teachinge. 18 For the scripture sayth: Thou shalt not mousell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. And the labourer is worthy of his rewarde.
• 2 Tim 2:3-6 : 3 Thou therfore suffre affliccion as a good soudier of Iesu Christ. 4 No man that warreth entanglith him silfe with worldely busynes and that be cause he wolde please him that hath chosen him to be a soudier. 5 And though a man strive for a mastery yet ys he not crouned except he strive laufully. 6 The husbandma that laboreth must fyrst receave of the frutes.
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watch thou in all thynges and suffre adversitie and do the worke of an evangelist fulfill thyne office vnto the vtmost.
• Phlm 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul the presoner of Iesu Christ and brother Timotheus. Vnto Philemon the beloved and oure helper
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a sonne hath rule over the housse whose housse are we so that we hold fast the confydence and the reioysynge of that hope vnto the ende.
• Rev 2:1 : 1 Unto the messenger of the congregacion of Ephesus wryte: These thynges sayth he that holdeth the vii. starres in his right honde and walketh in the myddes of the vii. golden candlestyckes
• Acts 8:4 : 4 They that were scattered abroade went every where preachyng the worde.
• Acts 11:19 : 19 They which were scattryd abroade thorow the affliccion that arose aboute Steven walked thorow oute tyll they came vnto Phenices and Cypers and Antioche preachynge ye worde to no man but vnto the Iewes only.
• Acts 13:2 : 2 As they mynistred to the Lorde and fasted the holy goost sayde: separate me Barnabas and Saul for ye worke where vnto I have called them.
• Acts 13:4 : 4 And they after they were sent of the holy goost came vnto Seleutia and from thence they sayled to Cyprus.
• Acts 16:9-9 : 9 And a vision appered to Paul in ye nyght. There stode a man of Macedonia and prayed him sayinge: come into Macedonia and helpe vs. 10 After he had sene ye vision immediatly we prepared to goo into Macedonia certified yt the LORde had called vs for to preache the gospell vnto them.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take hede therfore vnto youre selves and to all the flocke wherof the holy goost hath made you oversears to rule the congregacion of God which he hath purchased with his bloud.
• 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And God hath also ordeyned in the congregacion fyrst the Apostels secodarely prophetes thyrdly teachers then the that do miracles: after that the gyftes of healynge helpers governers diversite of tonges.
• 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vayne: but I labored moare aboundauntly then they all not I but the grace of God which is with me.
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We as helpers therfore exhorte you yt ye receave not the grace of god in (vayne)
• Eph 4:7-9 : 7 Vnto every one of vs is geven grace acordinge to the measure of ye gyft of christ. 8 Wherfore he sayth: He is gone vp an hye and hath ledde captivitie captive and hath geven gyftes vnto men. 9 That he ascended: what meaneth it but that he also descended fyrst into the lowest parties of the erth? 10 He that descended is even the same also that ascended vp even above all hevens to fulfill all thinges. 11 And the very same made some Apostles some prophetes some Evangelistes some Sheperdes some Teachers: 12 yt the sainctes might have all thinges necessarie to worke and minister with all to the edifyinge of the body of christ
• Phil 2:21 : 21 For all other seke ytir awne and not that which is Iesus Christes
• Phil 2:25 : 25 I supposed it necessary to sende brother Epaphroditus vnto you my companion in laboure and felowe soudier youre Apostel and my minister at my nedes.
• Phil 2:30 : 30 because that for ye worke of Christ he went so farre that he was nye vnto deeth and regarded not his lyfe to fulfill that service which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.
• Col 1:29 : 29 Wherin I also laboure and stryve even as farforth as hys workynge worketh in me myghtely.
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras the servaut of Christ which is one of you saluteth you and all wayes laboreth fervently for you in prayers that ye maye stonde perfect and full in all that is the will of God.
• Acts 22:21 : 21 And he sayde vnto me: departe for I will sende the a farre hence vnto the Gentyls.
• Rev 11:2-3 : 2 and the quyre which is within the temple cast oute and mete it not: for it is gevyn vnto the gentyles and the holy cite shall they treade vnderfote.xlii. monethes. 3 And I will geve power vnto my two wytnesses and they shall prophesy.M.iic. and.lx. dayes clothed in sacke cloth.