Luke 15:24

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

for this my sonne was deed and is alyve agayne he was loste and is now founde. And they began to be merye.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι οὗτος ὁ υἱός μου νεκρὸς ἦν, καὶ ἀνέζησεν· καὶ ἀπολωλὼς ἦν, καὶ εὑρέθη. Καὶ ἤρξαντο εὐφραίνεσθαι.

Transliteration

For this the huios of-me nekros ēn, and anezēsen; and apolōlōs ēn, and heurethē. And ērxanto euphrainesthai.

Grammar Details

• *huios*: noun, masculine singular, nominative - son
• μου: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st person singular - of me
• *nekros*: adjective, masculine singular, nominative - dead
• *ēn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular of *eimi* - was
• *anezēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - came to life again
• *apolōlōs*: perfect active participle, masculine singular, nominative - having been lost
• *heurethē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - was found
• *ērxanto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person plural - they began
• *euphrainesthai*: present passive infinitive - to celebrate/rejoice

Word Meanings

• *huios*: son
• *nekros*: dead/lifeless
• *anezēsen*: came to life again/revived/became alive again
• *apolōlōs*: having been lost/perished/gone astray
• *heurethē*: was found/discovered
• *ērxanto*: began/started
• *euphrainesthai*: to celebrate/rejoice/be merry/make merry

Referenced Verses

• Luke 15:32 : 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.
• Eph 2:1 : 1 And hath quickened you also that were deed in treaspasse and synne
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved)
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherfore he sayth: awake thou that slepest and stond vp from deeth and Christ shall geve the light.
• Col 2:13 : 13 And ye which weare deed in synne thorow ye vncircucision of youre flesshe hath he quyckened wt him and hath forgeve vs all oure trespases
• 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is deed even yet alive.
• Rev 3:1 : 1 And wryte vnto the messenger of the congregacion of Sardis: this sayth he that hath the sprete of god and the vii. starres. I knowe thy workes thou haste a name that thou lvyest and thou art deed
• Luke 19:10 : 10 For the sonne of ma is come to seke and to save that which was looste.
• Luke 15:4 : 4 What man of you havynge an hundred shepe yf he loose one of thee doth not leve nynty and nyne in the wyldernes and goo after yt which is loost vntyll he fynde him?
• Rom 6:11 : 11 Lykewyse ymagen ye also that ye are deed concernynge synne: but are alive vnto God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the lawe of the sprete yt bringeth life thorowe Iesus Christ hath delivered me fro the lawe of synne and deeth.
• Rom 11:15 : 15 For yf the castynge awaye of them be the reconcylynge of the worlde: what shall the receavynge of them be but lyfe agayne from deeth?
• Rom 12:15 : 15 Be mery with the that are mery. Wepe wt them that wepe.
• 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 And yf one member suffer all suffer with him: yf one member be had in honoure all members be glad also.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ costrayneth vs be cause we thus iudge yf one be deed for all yt then are all deed 15 and that he dyed for all that they which live shuld not hence forth live vnto them selves but vnto hym whith died for them and rose agayne.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 Nether geve ye youre members as instrumentes of vnrightewesnes vnto synne: but geve youre selves vnto God as they that are alive from deeth. And geve youre membres as iustrumetes of rightewesnes vnto God.
• Luke 15:7-9 : 7 I say vnto you yt lyke wyse ioye shalbe in heven over one synner yt repenteth moore then over nynety and nyne iuste persons whiche nede noo repentauce. 8 Ether what woman havynge.x. grotes yf she loose one doth not lyght a candell and swepe ye housse and seke diligently tyll she fynde it? 9 And when she hath founde it she calleth her lovers and her neghbours sayinge: Reioyce wt me for I have founde the groate which I had loost.
• John 5:21 : 21 For lykwyse as the father rayseth vp ye deed and quickeneth them even so the sonne quyckeneth whom he will.
• John 5:24-25 : 24 Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that heareth my wordes and beleveth on him that sent me hath everlastinge lyfe and shall not come into damnacion: but is scaped fro deth vnto lyfe. 25 Verely verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come and now is when the deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they yt heare shall live.
• John 11:25 : 25 Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion and the lyfe: He that beleveth on me ye though he were deed yet shall he lyve.
• Gen 45:28 : 28 And Israel sayde. I haue ynough yf Ioseph my sonne be yet alyue: I will goo and se him yer that I dye.
• Matt 18:10-13 : 10 Se that ye despise not one of these litelons. For I saye vnto you yt in heven their angels alwayes behold the face of my father which is in heven. 11 Ye and the sonne of man is come to saue that which is lost. 12 How thinke ye? Yf a man have an hondred shepe and one of them be gone astray dothe he not leve nynty and nyne in ye moutains and go and seke that one which is gone astray? 13 If it happen that he fynd him veryly I say vnto you: he reioyseth more of that shepe then of the nynty and nyne which went not astray.
• Mark 8:22 : 22 And he came to Bethsaida and they brought a blynde man vnto him and desyred him to touche him.
• Luke 10:19 : 19 Beholde I geve vnto you power to treade on serpetes and scorpions and over all maner power of the enimye and no thinge shall hurte you.
• Jude 1:12 : 12 These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast to gedder with out feare fedynge them selves. Cloudes they are with outen water caried about of wyndes and trees with out frute at gadringe tyme twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.