Matthew 7:11

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

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?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ οὖν ὑμεῖς, πονηροὶ ὄντες, οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ Πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς δώσει ἀγαθὰ τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν;

Transliteration

If oun hymeis, ponēroi ontes, oidate domata agatha didonai tois teknois hymōn, how much mallon ho Patēr hymōn ho en tois ouranois dōsei agatha tois aitousin auton?

Grammar Details

• *Ei*: conditional particle - if
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
• *hymeis*: nominative plural - you
• *ponēroi*: nominative plural masculine - evil/wicked
• *ontes*: present active participle, nominative plural masculine - being
• *oidate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you know/understand
• *domata*: accusative plural neuter - gifts
• *agatha*: accusative plural neuter - good things
• *didonai*: present active infinitive - to give
• *tois teknois*: dative plural neuter - to the children
• *hymōn*: genitive plural - your
• *posō*: dative singular neuter of degree - by how much
• *mallon*: comparative adverb - more/rather
• *ho Patēr*: nominative singular masculine - the Father
• *ho en tois ouranois*: the in the heavens
• *dōsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - he will give
• *tois aitousin*: dative plural masculine present active participle - to the ones asking
• *auton*: accusative singular masculine - him

Word Meanings

• *ponēroi*: evil/wicked/sinful/morally deficient
• *oidate*: know/understand/have knowledge of
• *domata*: gifts/presents/offerings
• *agatha*: good things/beneficial things/excellent things
• *didonai*: to give/to grant/to bestow
• *teknois*: children/offspring/descendants
• *Patēr*: Father [referring to God]
• *ouranois*: heavens/sky/realm above earth
• *aitousin*: asking/requesting/petitioning

Referenced Verses

• Luke 11:11-13 : 11 Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yf he axe fisshe wyll he for a fysshe geve him a serpent? 12 Or yf he axe an egge: wyll he offer him a scorpion? 13 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?
• 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?
• 2 Cor 9:8-9 : 8 God is able to make you ryche in all grace that ye in all thynges havynge sufficiet vnto the vttmoste maye be ryche vnto all manner good workes 9 as it is written: He yt sparsed abroade and hath geven to the povre his rightewesnes remayneth for ever. 10 He yt fyndeth the sower seed shall minister breed for fode and shall multiplie youre seed and increace the frutes of youre rightewesnes 11 that on all parties ye maye be made ryche in all synglenes which causeth thorowe vs thankes gevynge vnto god. 12 For the office of this ministracion not only supplieth the nede of the sayntes: but also is aboundaunt herein that for this laudable ministrynge thankes myght be geven to god 13 of many whiche prayse god for the obedience of youre professynge ye gospell of Christ and for youre synglenes in distributynge to them and to all me: 14 and in their prayers to God for you longe after you for the aboundauut grace of God geven vnto you. 15 Thankes be vnto God for his vn speakeable gyft.
• Eph 2:1-5 : 1 And hath quickened you also that were deed in treaspasse and synne 2 in ye which in tyme passed ye walked acordynge to the course of this worlde and after the governer that ruleth in the ayer the sprete yt now worketh in the children of vnbelefe 3 amonge which we also had oure conversacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesshe and fullfilled the will of the flesshe and of the mynde: and were naturally the children of wrath even as wel as other. 4 But God which is rich in mercy thorow his greate love wherwith he loved vs 5 even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved)
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gyfte and every parfayt gyft is from above and commeth doune fro the father of light with whom is no variablenes nether is he chaunged vnto darcknes.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Beholde what love the father hath shewed on vs that we shuld be called the sonnes of god. For this cause the worlde knoweth you not because it knoweth not him.
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herin is love not that we loved god but that he loved vs and sent his sonne to make agrement for oure sinnes.
• Gen 6:5 : 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
• 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.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And whe the Lorde walked before him, he cryed: Lorde Lorde God full of compassion ad mercy, which art not lightly angrye but abundat in mercy ad trueth, 7 ad kepest mercy in store for thousandes, ad forgeuest wikednesse, trespace ad synne (for there is no man ynnocet before the) and visetest the wikydnesse of the fathers vpo the childern ad apon childerns childern, euen vnto the thryd ad fourth generatio.
• Luke 2:10-11 : 10 But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde I bringe you tydinges of greate ioye yt shal come to all ye people: 11 for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David a saveoure which is Christ ye LORde.
• John 3:16 : 16 For God so loveth the worlde yt he hath geven his only sonne that none that beleve in him shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe.
• Rom 3:9 : 9 What saye we then? Are we better then they? No in no wyse. For we have all ready proved how that both Iewes and Gentils are all vnder synne
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Ye and we knowe that whatsoever ye lawe sayth he sayth it to them which are vnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye be stopped and all the worlde be subdued to god
• Rom 5:8-9 : 8 But God setteth out his love that he hath to vs seinge that whyll we were yet synners Christ dyed for vs. 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.
• Titus 3:3-7 : 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. 4 But after that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure God to mawarde appered 5 not of ye dedes of rightewesnes which we wrought but of his mercie he saved vs by ye foutayne of the newe birth and with the renuynge of the holy goos 6 which he shed on vs aboundantly thorow Iesus Christ oure saveoure 7 that we once iustified by his grace shuld be heyres of eternall lyfe thorowe hope
• Gal 3:22 : 22 But ye scripture concluded all thinges vnder synne yt the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuld be geve vnto them yt beleve.