Galatians 4:4

World English Bible (2000)

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτε δὲ ἦλθεν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου, ἐξαπέστειλεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, γενόμενον ἐκ γυναικός, γενόμενον ὑπὸ νόμον,

Transliteration

When de ēlthen the plērōma of the chronou, exapesteilen the Theos the Huion of him, genomenon ek gynaikos, genomenon hypo nomon

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *ēlthen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - came
• *plērōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - fullness/completion
• *chronou*: genitive, masculine, singular - time/period
• *exapesteilen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - sent forth/sent out
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *Huion*: accusative, masculine, singular - Son
• *genomenon*: aorist middle participle, accusative, masculine, singular - having become/born
• *ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *gynaikos*: genitive, feminine, singular - woman
• *hypo*: preposition with accusative - under
• *nomon*: accusative, masculine, singular - law

Word Meanings

• *plērōma*: fullness/completion/fulfillment
• *exapesteilen*: sent forth/dispatched/sent out with authority
• *genomenon*: having become/been born/been made
• *gynaikos*: woman/wife
• *nomon*: law/Torah/principle

Referenced Verses

• John 1:14 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Mark 1:15 : 15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News."
• Eph 1:10 : 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
• John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
• Luke 2:7 : 7 She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
• Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
• Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
• Isa 48:16 : 16 "Come near to me and hear this: "From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I." Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.
• Jer 31:22 : 22 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
• Mic 5:2-3 : 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting. 3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
• Zech 2:8-9 : 8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me. 10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. 11 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
• Zech 6:12 : 12 and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh;
• John 10:36 : 36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
• Rom 1:3 : 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• 1 John 4:14 : 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
• Matt 5:17 : 17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Rom 9:5 : 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
• Rom 15:8 : 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
• Acts 1:7 : 7 He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
• Luke 1:31 : 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'
• Phil 2:6-8 : 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
• Col 2:14 : 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• Heb 2:14 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Heb 9:10 : 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Heb 10:5-7 : 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"
• 1 John 4:2 : 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
• Mal 3:1 : 1 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.
• Matt 1:23 : 23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
• Luke 2:10-11 : 10 The angel said to them, "Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people. 11 For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
• Luke 2:21-27 : 21 When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. 22 When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"), 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." 25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
• John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• John 8:42 : 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
• Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.