1 Timothy 2:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Παρακαλῶ οὖν, πρῶτον πάντων, ποιεῖσθαι δεήσεις, προσευχάς, ἐντεύξεις, εὐχαριστίας, ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀνθρώπων·

Transliteration

I parakalō therefore, first of all, to poieisthai deēseis, proseuchas, enteuxeis, eucharistias, hyper all anthrōpōn;

Grammar Details

• *parakalō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I urge/exhort/beseech
• *poieisthai*: present middle infinitive - to make/do (for oneself)
• *deēseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - petitions/supplications
• *proseuchas*: accusative, feminine, plural - prayers
• *enteuxeis*: accusative, feminine, plural - intercessions/requests
• *eucharistias*: accusative, feminine, plural - thanksgivings
• *hyper*: preposition + genitive - for/on behalf of
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - men/humans/mankind

Word Meanings

• *parakalō*: urge/exhort/beseech/encourage
• *poieisthai*: to make/do/perform/offer
• *deēseis*: petitions/supplications/entreaties
• *proseuchas*: prayers/devotions
• *enteuxeis*: intercessions/petitions/requests/meetings
• *eucharistias*: thanksgivings/gratitude
• *anthrōpōn*: humans/mankind/people

Referenced Verses

• 2 Tim 2:24 : 24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
• 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
• Titus 3:2 : 2 of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,
• Jas 5:16 : 16 Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
• Heb 6:11 : 11 and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
• 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,
• Titus 2:11 : 11 For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,
• Gen 18:23-32 : 23 And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked? 24 peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who `are' in its midst? 25 Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?' 26 And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.' 27 And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes; 28 peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, `I destroy `it' not, if I find there forty and five.' 29 And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, `Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, because of the forty.' 30 And he saith, `Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, if I find there thirty.' 31 And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the twenty.' 32 And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the ten.'
• 1 Kgs 8:41-43 : 41 `And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake -- 42 (for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) -- and he hath come in and prayed towards this house, 43 Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded.
• Ps 67:1-4 : 1 To the Overseer, with stringed instruments. -- A Psalm, a Song. God doth favour us and bless us, Doth cause His face to shine with us. Selah. 2 For the knowledge in earth of Thy way, among all nations of Thy salvation. 3 Praise Thee do peoples, O God, Praise Thee do peoples, all of them. 4 Rejoice and sing do nations, For Thou judgest peoples uprightly, And peoples on earth comfortest. Selah.
• Ps 72:19 : 19 And blessed `is' the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled `with' His honour. Amen, and amen!
• Matt 6:9-9 : 9 thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who `art' in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name. 10 `Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.
• Acts 17:30 : 30 the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
• Rom 1:8 : 8 first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;
• Rom 6:17 : 17 and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;
• 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,
• 2 Cor 8:6 : 6 so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,
• Eph 3:13 : 13 wherefore, I ask `you' not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
• Eph 5:20 : 20 giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;
• Phil 1:3 : 3 I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,
• 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
• 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;