Matthew 5:7

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Blessed are ye mercifull: for they shall obteyne mercy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μακάριοι οἱ ἐλεήμονες: ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἐλεηθήσονται.

Transliteration

Makarioi the eleēmones: hoti they eleēthēsontai.

Grammar Details

• *Makarioi*: nominative masculine plural adjective - blessed/happy
• *eleēmones*: nominative masculine plural - merciful
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for
• *eleēthēsontai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person plural - will be shown mercy

Word Meanings

• *Makarioi*: blessed/happy/fortunate
• *eleēmones*: merciful/compassionate
• *eleēthēsontai*: will be shown mercy/compassion/will receive mercy

Referenced Verses

• Matt 6:14-15 : 14 For and yf ye shall forgeve other men their treaspases youre hevenly father shall also forgeve you. 15 But and ye wyll not forgeve men their trespases nomore shall youre father forgeve youre treaspases.
• Eph 4:32-5:1 : 32 Be ye courteouse one to another and mercifull forgevynge one another eve as god for Christes sake forgave you. 1 Be ye folowers of god as dere children
• Matt 18:33-35 : 33 shuldest have had copassion on thy felow even as I had pitie on ye? 34 And his LORde was wrooth and delyuered him to the iaylers tyll he shnld paye all that was due to him. 35 So lyke wyse shall my hevenly father do vnto you except ye forgeve with youre hertes eache one to his brother their treaspases.
• Heb 6:10 : 10 For god is not vnrighteous that he shuld forget youre worke and laboure that procedeth of love which love shewed in his name which have ministred vnto the saynctes and yet minister
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For ther shalbe iudgement merciles to him that sheweth no mercy and mercy reioyseth agaynst iudgement:
• Luke 6:35 : 35 Wherfore love ye youre enemys do good and lende lokynge for nothinge agayne and youre rewarde shalbe greate and ye shalbe the chyldren of the hyest: for he is kynde vnto the vnkynde and to the evyll.
• Col 3:12 : 12 Now therfore as electe of god holy and beloved put on tender mercie kyndnes humblenes of myndes meknes longe sufferynge
• 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 As concernynge virgins I have no comaundment of the LORde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the LORde to be faythfull.
• Heb 4:16 : 16 Let vs therfore goo boldely vnto the seate of grace that we maye receave mercy and fynde grace to helpe in tyme of nede.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therfore seinge that we have soche an office eve as mercy is come on vs we faynte not:
• Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is fyrst pure then peasable gentle and easy to be entreated full of mercy and good frutes without iudgynge and without simulacio:
• 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 which in tyme past were not a people yet are now the people of God: which were not vnder mercye but now have obteyned mercye.
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 when before I was a blasphemar and a persecuter and a tyraut. But I obtayned mercy because I dyd it ignorautly thorow vnbelefe.
• 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 Notwithstondinge for this cause was mercy geve vnto me that Iesus Christ shuld fyrst shewe on me all longe pacience vnto the ensample of them which shall in tyme to come beleve on him vnto eternall lyfe.
• 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 The LORde geve mercie vnto the housse of Onesiphoros for he ofte refresshed me and was not a shamed of my chayne: 17 but when he was at Rome he sought me out very diligently and founde me. 18 The LORde graunt vnto him that he maye fynde mercie with the LORde at that daye. And in how many thynges he ministred vnto me at Ephesus thou knowest very wel.
• Rom 11:30 : 30 for loke as ye in tyme passed have not beleved God yet have now obtayned mercy thorow their vnbelefe:
• Mark 11:25 : 25 And when ye stod and praye forgeve yf ye have eny thinge agaynste eny man yt youre father also which is in heve maye forgeve you youre trespases.