1 Peter 5:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ταπεινώθητε οὖν ὑπὸ τὴν κραταιὰν χεῖρα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἵνα ὑμᾶς ὑψώσῃ ἐν καιρῷ:

Transliteration

Tapeinōthēte therefore under the krataian cheira of the Theou, in order that you hypsōsē in kairō:

Grammar Details

• *Tapeinōthēte*: aorist, imperative, passive, 2nd person plural - be humbled/humble yourselves
• *krataian*: accusative, feminine, singular - mighty/powerful
• *cheira*: accusative, feminine, singular - hand
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *hypsōsē*: aorist, subjunctive, active, 3rd person singular - may exalt/lift up
• *kairō*: dative, masculine, singular - in time/appointed time

Word Meanings

• *Tapeinōthēte*: humble yourselves/be humbled/submit
• *krataian*: mighty/powerful/strong
• *cheira*: hand/power [metaphorical for authority]
• *hypsōsē*: may exalt/lift up/elevate
• *kairō*: time/proper time/appointed time/due season

Referenced Verses

• Jas 4:10 : 10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
• Matt 23:12 : 12 and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
• Prov 29:23 : 23 The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.
• Luke 1:52 : 52 He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,
• Luke 14:11 : 11 because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• 2 Chr 33:23 : 23 and hath not been humbled before Jehovah, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself hath multiplied guilt.
• 2 Kgs 22:19 : 19 because thy heart `is' tender, and thou art humbled because of Jehovah, in thy hearing that which I have spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants, to be for a desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me -- I also have heard -- the affirmation of Jehovah --
• 2 Chr 12:6-7 : 6 and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, `Righteous `is' Jehovah.' 7 And when Jehovah seeth that they have been humbled, a word of Jehovah hath been unto Shemaiah, saying, `They have been humbled; I do not destroy them, and I have given to them as a little thing for an escape, and I pour not out My fury in Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak;
• 2 Chr 12:12 : 12 And in his being humbled, turned back from him hath the wrath of Jehovah, so as not to destroy to completion; and also, in Judah there have been good things.
• 2 Chr 30:11 : 11 only, certain from Asher, and Manasseh, and from Zebulun, have been humbled, and come in to Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 32:26 : 26 and Hezekiah is humbled for the loftiness of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the wrath of Jehovah hath not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
• 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
• Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,
• Isa 2:11 : 11 The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.
• Isa 40:4 : 4 Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
• Jer 13:18 : 18 Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
• Jer 44:10 : 10 They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.
• 2 Chr 36:12 : 12 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah his God, he hath not been humbled before Jeremiah the prophet `speaking' from the mouth of Jehovah;
• 1 Kgs 21:29 : 29 `Hast thou seen that Ahab hath been humbled before Me? because that he hath been humbled before Me, I bring not in the evil in his days; in the days of his son I bring in the evil on his house.'
• Ps 75:10 : 10 And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous!
• Ps 89:13 : 13 Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand -- high Thy right hand.
• Ps 89:16-17 : 16 In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted, 17 For the beauty of their strength `art' Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,
• Jas 5:10 : 10 An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;
• Jas 1:9-9 : 9 And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;
• Rom 5:6 : 6 For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;
• 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
• Exod 3:19 : 19 `And I -- I have known that the king of Egypt doth not permit you to go, unless by a strong hand,
• Job 36:22 : 22 Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who `is' like Him -- a teacher?
• Ezek 21:6 : 6 And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,
• Dan 5:22 : 22 `And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known;
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
• Exod 32:11 : 11 And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, `Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
• Lev 26:41 : 41 also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies -- or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, --
• Deut 32:35 : 35 Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
• 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.