Matthew 14:30

World English Bible (2000)

But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Βλέπων δὲ τὸν ἄνεμον ἰσχυρὸν, ἐφοβήθη· καὶ ἀρξάμενος καταποντίζεσθαι, ἔκραξεν, λέγων, Κύριε, σῶσόν με.

Transliteration

But blepōn the anemon ischyron, ephobēthē; and arxamenos katapontizesthai, ekraxen, legōn, Kyrie, sōson me.

Grammar Details

• *blepōn*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - seeing
• *anemon*: accusative, masculine, singular - wind
• *ischyron*: accusative, masculine, singular - strong
• *ephobēthē*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - was afraid
• *arxamenos*: aorist, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having begun
• *katapontizesthai*: present, passive, infinitive - to sink
• *ekraxen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - cried out
• *legōn*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *sōson*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd person singular - save

Word Meanings

• *blepōn*: seeing/observing/noticing
• *ischyron*: strong/powerful/mighty
• *ephobēthē*: was afraid/feared/became frightened
• *arxamenos*: having begun/started
• *katapontizesthai*: to sink/drown/be submerged
• *ekraxen*: cried out/shouted
• *Kyrie*: Lord/Master/Sir
• *sōson*: save/rescue/deliver

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 4:16-17 : 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Luke 22:54-61 : 54 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance. 55 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them. 56 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him." 57 He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don't know him." 58 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!" 59 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!" 60 But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 61 The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."
• John 18:25-27 : 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not." 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?" 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
• Ps 116:3-4 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."
• Lam 3:54-57 : 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. 55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. 56 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
• Jonah 2:2-7 : 2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. 3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. 7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
• Matt 8:24-25 : 24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. 25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
• Matt 26:69-75 : 69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!" 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about." 71 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth." 72 Again he denied it with an oath, "I don't know the man." 73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known." 74 Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed. 75 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.
• Mark 14:38 : 38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
• Mark 14:66-72 : 66 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came, 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!" 68 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed. 69 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them." 70 But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." 71 But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of whom you speak!" 72 The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.
• 2 Kgs 6:15 : 15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
• Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
• Ps 69:1-2 : 1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Ps 107:27-30 : 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. 28 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. 29 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. 30 Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.
• 2 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.