Luke 11:13

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ οὖν, ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὑπάρχοντες, οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν: πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν;

Transliteration

If oun, you ponēroi hyparchontes, oidate domata agatha didonai to the teknois of you: how much more the Patēr from ouranou dōsei Pneuma Hagion to the ones aitousin him?

Grammar Details

• *oun*: postpositive conjunction - therefore/then
• *ponēroi*: nominative, masculine, plural - evil/wicked
• *hyparchontes*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - being/existing
• *oidate*: perfect indicative, active, 2nd plural - you know
• *domata*: accusative, neuter, plural - gifts
• *agatha*: accusative, neuter, plural - good
• *didonai*: present infinitive, active - to give
• *teknois*: dative, neuter, plural - children
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven
• *dōsei*: future indicative, active, 3rd singular - will give
• *Pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagion*: accusative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *aitousin*: present participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - asking

Word Meanings

• *ponēroi*: evil/wicked/bad
• *hyparchontes*: being/existing/belonging
• *oidate*: know/understand/comprehend
• *domata*: gifts/presents
• *agatha*: good/beneficial/valuable
• *didonai*: to give/to grant/to bestow
• *teknois*: children/offspring/descendants
• *Patēr*: Father/progenitor
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky/celestial realm
• *dōsei*: will give/will grant/will bestow
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *Hagion*: Holy/set apart/sacred
• *aitousin*: asking/requesting

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:11 : 11 Yf ye then which are evyll cane geve to youre chyldren good gyftes: how moche moore shall youre father which is in heve geve good thynges to them yt axe hym?
• John 4:10 : 10 Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God and who it is that sayeth to the geve me drynke thou woldest have axed of him and he wolde have geven the water of lyfe.
• Rom 7:18 : 18 For I knowe that in me (that is to saye in my flesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To will is present with me: but I fynde no meanes to performe that which is good.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 which spared not his awne sonne but gave him for vs all: how shall he not wt him geve vs all thinges also?
• Heb 12:9-9 : 9 Moreover seynge we had fathers of oure flesshe which corrected vs and we gave them reverence: shuld we not moche rather be in subieccion vnto the father of spretuall gyftes that we myght live? 10 And they verely for a feaue dayes nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he learneth vs vnto that which is proffitable that we myght receave of his holines.
• 2 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For if ye ministringe of condempnacio beglorious: moche more do the the ministracion of rightewesnes excede in glory. 10 For no dout that which was there glorified is not once glorified in respecte of this excedynge glory. 11 Then if that which is destroyed was glorious moche more shall that which remayneth be glorious.
• John 7:37-39 : 37 In the last daye that great daye of the feaste Iesus stode and cryed sayinge: If eny man thyrst let him come vnto me and drinke. 38 He that beleveth on me as sayeth the scripture out of his belly shall flowe ryvers of water of lyfe. 39 This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him shuld receave. For the holy goost was not yet there because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.
• Rom 5:9-9 : 9 Moche more then now (seynge we are iustifyed in his bloud) shall we be saved from wrath thorow him. 10 For yf when we were enemyes we were reconciled to God by the deeth of his sonne: moche more seinge we are reconciled we shal be preservid by his lyfe.
• Rom 5:17 : 17 For yf by the synne of one deeth raigned by the meanes of one moche more shall they which receave aboundance of grace and of the gyfte of rightewesnes raygne in lyfe by the meanes of one (that is to saye) Iesus Christ.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 Peter sayde vnto them: repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for the remission of synnes and ye shall receave the gyfte of the holy goost.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we oure selves also were in tymes past vnwyse disobedient deceaved in daunger to lustes and to diuers maners of volupteousnes livynge in maliciousnes and envie full of hate hatinge one another.
• Luke 11:2 : 2 And he sayd vnto the: When ye praye saye: O oure father which arte in heave halowed be thy name. Thy kyngdome come. Thy will be fulfilled even in erth as it is in heaven.
• Luke 15:30-32 : 30 but assone as this thy sonne was come which hath devoured thy goodes with harlootes thou haste for his pleasure kylled ye fatted caulfe. 31 And he sayd vnto him: Sonne thou wast ever with me and all that I have is thyne: 32 it was mete that we shuld make mery and be glad: for this thy brother was deed and is a lyve agayne: and was loste and is founde.
• John 3:5-6 : 5 Iesus answered: verely verely I saye vnto the: except that a man be boren of water and of ye sprete he cannot enter into the kyngdome of god. 6 That which is boren of the flesshe is flesshe: and that which is boren of the sprete is sprete.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORDE smellyd a swete savoure and sayd in his hert: I wyll henceforth no more curse the erth for mannes sake for the imagynacion of mannes hert is evell even from the very youth of hym. Morover I wyll not destroy from henceforth all that lyveth as I haue done.
• Matt 5:16 : 16 Let youre light so shyne before men yt they maye se youre good workes and glorify youre father which is in heven.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye maye be ye chyldern of youre father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to aryse on ye yvell and on the good and sendeth his reyn on the iuste and vniuste.
• Matt 6:14 : 14 For and yf ye shall forgeve other men their treaspases youre hevenly father shall also forgeve you.
• Matt 6:30 : 30 Wherfore yf God so clothe the grasse which ys to daye in the felde and to morowe shalbe caste in to the fournace: shall he not moche more do the same vnto you o ye of lytle fayth?
• Matt 6:32 : 32 After all these thynges seke the getyls. For youre hevely father knoweth that ye have neade of all these thynges.
• Gen 6:5-6 : 5 And whan the LORde sawe yt the wekednesse of man was encreased apon the erth and that all the ymaginacion and toughtes of his hert was only evell continually 6 he repented that he had made man apon the erth and sorowed in his hert.