Matthew 6:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅταν οὖν ποιῇς ἐλεημοσύνην, μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου, ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις, ὅπως δοξασθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, Ἀπέχουσιν τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν.

Transliteration

Hotan oun poiēs eleēmosynēn, mē salpisēs emprosthen of you, hōsper the hypokritai poiousin in the synagōgais and in the rhymais, hopōs doxasthōsin by the anthrōpōn. Amēn legō to you, Apechousin the misthon of them.

Grammar Details

• *Hotan oun poiēs*: temporal conjunction + inferential particle + present subjunctive, 2nd singular - whenever therefore you do/give
• *eleēmosynēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - alms/charitable giving
• *mē salpisēs*: negative particle + aorist subjunctive, 2nd singular - do not sound a trumpet
• *emprosthen*: preposition - before/in front of
• *hōsper*: comparative adverb - just as/like
• *hypokritai*: nominative, masculine, plural - hypocrites/actors
• *poiousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - they do/practice
• *synagōgais*: dative, feminine, plural - synagogues/assemblies
• *rhymais*: dative, feminine, plural - streets/alleys
• *hopōs doxasthōsin*: purpose conjunction + aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd plural - so that they may be glorified/honored
• *Amēn legō*: Hebrew term + present active indicative, 1st singular - truly I say
• *Apechousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - they have in full/receive completely
• *misthon*: accusative, masculine, singular - reward/payment

Word Meanings

• *Hotan*: whenever/when
• *salpisēs*: sound a trumpet/announce loudly/proclaim
• *hypokritai*: hypocrites/actors/pretenders
• *synagōgais*: synagogues/meeting places/assemblies
• *rhymais*: streets/alleys/roads
• *doxasthōsin*: be glorified/be praised/be honored
• *Amēn*: truly/verily/certainly
• *Apechousin*: have received in full/have collected completely/have exhausted their reward

Referenced Verses

• Matt 6:5 : 5 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most assuredly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
• Matt 6:16 : 16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.
• Matt 7:5 : 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
• Matt 15:7 : 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
• Matt 16:3 : 3 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
• Matt 22:18 : 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
• Matt 23:6 : 6 and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
• Matt 23:13-29 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. 14 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.{Some Greek manuscripts reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13, numbering verse 14 as 13.} 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves. 16 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.' 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.' 19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it. 21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it. 22 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it. 23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,{ cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.} and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. 24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! 25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"} 26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also. 27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
• Matt 24:51 : 51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
• Mark 7:6 : 6 He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
• Mark 12:39 : 39 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
• Luke 6:24 : 24 "But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
• Luke 6:42 : 42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
• Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
• Luke 11:43 : 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
• Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
• Luke 12:56 : 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?
• Luke 13:15 : 15 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
• Luke 20:46 : 46 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
• John 5:41 : 41 I don't receive glory from men.
• John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
• John 7:18 : 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
• John 13:29 : 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
• Acts 9:36 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas.{"Dorcas" is Greek for "Gazelle."} This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
• Acts 10:2 : 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
• Acts 10:4 : 4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
• Acts 10:31 : 31 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
• Acts 11:29 : 29 As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
• Acts 24:17 : 17 Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
• Rom 12:8 : 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
• 2 Cor 9:6-9 : 6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. 9 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever." 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; 11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God; 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
• Gal 2:10 : 10 They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.
• Eph 4:28 : 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
• 1 Thess 2:6 : 6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
• 1 Tim 6:18 : 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
• Phlm 1:7 : 7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
• Heb 13:16 : 16 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Jas 2:15-16 : 15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speaks, let it be as it were oracles of God. If any man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• 1 John 3:17-19 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
• 1 Sam 15:30 : 30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.
• Job 31:16-20 : 16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it 18 (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb); 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
• Ps 37:21 : 21 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, But the righteous give generously.
• Ps 112:9 : 9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Prov 19:17 : 17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; He will reward him.
• Prov 20:6 : 6 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, But who can find a faithful man?
• Eccl 11:2 : 2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; For you don't know what evil will be on the earth.
• Isa 9:17 : 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
• Isa 58:7 : 7 Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• Isa 58:10-12 : 10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday; 11 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail. 12 Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
• Hos 8:1 : 1 "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, Because they have broken my covenant, And rebelled against my law.
• Matt 5:18 : 18 For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.