Romans 11:10

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Let their eyes be blynded that they se not: and ever bowe doune their backes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σκοτισθήτωσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν, τοῦ μὴ βλέπειν, καὶ τὸν νῶτον αὐτῶν διὰ παντὸς σύγκαμψον.

Transliteration

Skotisthētōsan the ophthalmoi of them, of the not blepein, and the nōton of them through all sygkampson.

Grammar Details

• *Skotisthētōsan*: aorist passive imperative, 3rd person plural - let be darkened
• *ophthalmoi*: nominative masculine plural - eyes
• *blepein*: present active infinitive - to see
• *nōton*: accusative masculine singular - back
• *sygkampson*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person singular - bend down

Word Meanings

• *Skotisthētōsan*: let be darkened/let be blinded
• *ophthalmoi*: eyes/sight
• *blepein*: to see/to perceive
• *nōton*: back/spine
• *sygkampson*: bend down/stoop/bow

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:64-68 : 64 And the Lorde shall scater the amonge all nacyons from the one ende of the worlde vnto the other, and there thou shalt serue straunge goddes, which nether thou nor thy fathers haue knowne: euen wod and stone. 65 And amonge these nacyons thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt haue no reste for the sole of thy foote. For the Lorde shall geue the there a treblynge herte ad dasynge eyes and sorowe of mynde. 66 And thy lyfe shall hange before the, and thou shalt feare both daye and nyghte ad shalt haue no trust in thy lyfe. 67 In the mornynge thou shalt saye, wolde God it were nyghte. And at nyghte thou shalt saye, wolde God it were mornynge. For feare off thyne herte whiche thou shalt feare, and for the syghte of thyne eyes whiche thou shalt se. 68 And the Lorde shall brynge the in to Egipte agayne with shippes, by the waye which I bade the that thou shuldest se it nomoare. And there ye shalbe solde vnto youre enemyes, for bondmen and bondwemen: and yet no man shall bye you.
• Rom 1:21 : 21 in as moche as when they knewe god they glorified him not as God nether were thakfull but wexed full of vanities in their imaginacions and their folisshe hertes were blynded.
• Rom 11:8 : 8 accordynge as it is written: God hath geven the the sprete of vnquyetnes: eyes that they shuld not se and eares that they shuld not heare even vnto this daye.
• Eph 4:18 : 18 blynded in their vnderstondynge beynge straungers from the lyfe which is in god thorow the ignorancy that is in them because of the blyndnes of their hertes:
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For yf god spared not the angels that synned but cast them doune into hell and delyuered them in chaynes of darknes to be kept vnto iudgement.
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are welles without water and cloudes caried about of a tepest to whome the myst of darcknes is reserved for ever.
• Jude 1:6 : 6 The angels also which kept not their fyrst estate: but lefte their awne habitacion he hath reserved in everlastinge chaynes vnder darcknes vnto ye iudgemet of the greate daye:
• Jude 1:13 : 13 They are the ragynge waves of ye see fominge out their awne shame. They are wandrynge starres to whom is reserved the myst of darcknes for ever.