1 Peter 1:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Πατὴρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ κατὰ τὸ πολὺ αὐτοῦ ἔλεος ἀναγεννήσας ἡμᾶς εἰς ἐλπίδα ζῶσαν διʼ ἀναστάσεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐκ νεκρῶν,

Transliteration

Eulogētos the Theos and Patēr of the Kyriou of us Iēsou Christou, the one according to the poly of him eleos having anagennēsas us into elpida zōsan through anastaseōs of Iēsou Christou from nekrōn,

Grammar Details

• *Eulogētos*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - predicate
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - subject
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - subject
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive relationship
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - apposition to Kyriou
• *poly*: accusative, neuter, singular - extent/degree
• *eleos*: accusative, neuter, singular - direct object
• *anagennēsas*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - verbal action
• *elpida*: accusative, feminine, singular - goal/purpose
• *zōsan*: present, active, participle, accusative, feminine, singular - attributive
• *anastaseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - means/instrument
• *nekrōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - separation/source

Word Meanings

• *Eulogētos*: blessed/praised/worthy of praise
• *Theos*: God/deity
• *Patēr*: father/progenitor
• *Kyriou*: Lord/master/owner
• *poly*: much/great/abundant
• *eleos*: mercy/compassion/pity
• *anagennēsas*: having regenerated/begotten again/caused to be born again
• *elpida*: hope/expectation
• *zōsan*: living/alive/active
• *anastaseōs*: resurrection/raising up
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;
• 2 Cor 1:3 : 3 Blessed `is' God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,
• 1 John 3:3 : 3 and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.
• 1 Cor 15:20 : 20 And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
• 1 John 2:29 : 29 if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.
• Heb 6:18-19 : 18 that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us', 19 which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,
• Jas 1:18 : 18 having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
• 1 John 5:4 : 4 because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;
• 1 John 5:18 : 18 We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;
• 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that `is' in Christ Jesus:
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
• Heb 3:6 : 6 and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.
• Rom 12:12 : 12 in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
• Rom 15:13 : 13 and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.
• Eph 3:20 : 20 and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,
• Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
• Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
• Eph 1:17 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,
• Eph 2:4 : 4 and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,
• John 3:3-8 : 3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;' 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?' 5 Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God; 6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above; 8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'
• Rom 4:25 : 25 who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
• Rom 5:4-5 : 4 and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope; 5 and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
• Rom 5:10 : 10 for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
• Rom 5:15-21 : 15 But, not as the offence so also `is' the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many; 16 and not as through one who did sin `is' the free gift, for the judgment indeed `is' of one to condemnation, but the gift `is' of many offences to a declaration of `Righteous,' 17 for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ. 18 So, then, as through one offence to all men `it is' to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' `it is' to all men to justification of life; 19 for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous. 20 And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound, 21 that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.
• Rom 8:24 : 24 for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'?
• Exod 34:6 : 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
• 1 Kgs 8:15 : 15 And he saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who spake by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand hath fulfilled `it', saying,
• 1 Chr 29:10-13 : 10 And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed `art' Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age. 11 To Thee, O Jehovah, `is' the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the honour, because of all in the heavens and in the earth; to Thee, O Jehovah, `is' the kingdom, and he who is lifting up himself over all for head; 12 and the riches, and the honour `are' from before Thee, and Thou art ruling over all, and in Thy hand `is' power and might, and in Thy hand, to make great, and to give strength to all. 13 `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name;
• 1 Chr 29:20 : 20 And David saith to all the assembly, `Bless, I pray you, Jehovah your God;' and all the assembly bless Jehovah, God of their fathers, and bow and do obeisance to Jehovah, and to the king.
• Ps 41:13 : 13 Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age -- and unto the age. Amen and Amen.
• Ps 72:18-19 : 18 Blessed is Jehovah God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders, 19 And blessed `is' the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled `with' His honour. Amen, and amen!
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For Thou, Lord, `art' good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.
• Ps 86:15 : 15 And Thou, O Lord, `art' God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.
• Isa 26:19 : 19 `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou `art' a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?
• John 1:13 : 13 who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.
• 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,
• Titus 2:13 : 13 waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
• 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
• Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God did will to make known what `is' the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
• Eph 2:6-9 : 6 and did raise `us' up together, and did seat `us' together in the heavenly `places' in Christ Jesus, 7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, 8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift, 9 not of works, that no one may boast; 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
• 1 John 3:9 : 9 every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.
• 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: