Mark 9:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐγένετο νεφέλη ἐπισκιάζουσα αὐτοῖς: καὶ ἦλθεν φωνὴ ἐκ τῆς νεφέλης, λέγουσα, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός: αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε.

Transliteration

And egeneto nephelē episkiazousa them: and ēlthen phōnē from the nephelēs, legousa, This estin the Huios of me the agapētos: him akouete.

Grammar Details

• *egeneto*: aorist middle, 3rd singular - became/came to be
• *nephelē*: nominative singular - cloud
• *episkiazousa*: present active participle, nominative singular feminine - overshadowing/covering
• *ēlthen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - came
• *phōnē*: nominative singular - voice/sound
• *nephelēs*: genitive singular - of the cloud
• *legousa*: present active participle, nominative singular feminine - saying
• *estin*: present active, 3rd singular - is
• *Huios*: nominative singular - Son
• *agapētos*: nominative singular - beloved
• *akouete*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - hear/listen to

Word Meanings

• *egeneto*: became/happened/came to be
• *nephelē*: cloud
• *episkiazousa*: overshadowing/covering/casting shadow upon
• *phōnē*: voice/sound
• *legousa*: saying/speaking/telling
• *Huios*: Son
• *agapētos*: beloved/dearly loved
• *akouete*: hear/listen to/obey

Referenced Verses

• Matt 3:17 : 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
• 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
• Mark 1:11 : 11 A voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
• Luke 9:34-36 : 34 While he said these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. 35 A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!" 36 When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
• John 1:34 : 34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."
• John 1:49 : 49 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"
• John 3:16-18 : 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. 17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
• John 5:18 : 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
• John 5:22-25 : 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him. 24 "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25 Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
• John 5:37 : 37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
• John 6:69 : 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
• John 9:35 : 35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
• John 19:7 : 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
• John 20:31 : 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• Acts 1:9 : 9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
• Acts 3:22-23 : 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. 23 It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'
• Acts 7:37 : 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}'
• Acts 8:36 : 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"
• Rom 1:4 : 4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
• Heb 2:1 : 1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 26 whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this was God's love 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{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
• 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Rev 1:7 : 7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
• Matt 17:5-7 : 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him." 6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid. 7 Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up, and don't be afraid."
• Matt 26:63-64 : 63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God." 64 Jesus said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, henceforth you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky."
• Matt 27:43 : 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
• Matt 27:54 : 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."
• Exod 23:21-22 : 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
• Exod 24:16 : 16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
• Exod 40:34 : 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tent.
• Deut 18:15-19 : 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen; 16 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. 17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
• 1 Kgs 8:10-12 : 10 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. 12 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
• Ps 2:7 : 7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.
• Ps 97:2 : 2 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
• Dan 7:13 : 13 I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.