1 Timothy 3:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν δὲ βραδύνω, ἵνα εἰδῇς πῶς δεῖ ἐν οἴκῳ Θεοῦ ἀναστρέφεσθαι, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐκκλησία Θεοῦ ζῶντος, στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας.

Transliteration

Ean de bradynō, hina eidēs pōs dei in oikō Theou anastrephesthai, hētis estin ekklēsia Theou zōntos, stylos kai hedraiōma tēs alētheias.

Grammar Details

• *Ean*: conjunction - if
• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *bradynō*: verb, present, active, subjunctive, 1st person, singular - I delay/I am slow
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *eidēs*: verb, perfect, active, subjunctive, 2nd person, singular - you might know
• *pōs*: adverb - how
• *dei*: verb, present, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular, impersonal - it is necessary
• *oikō*: noun, dative, masculine, singular - house/household
• *Theou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *anastrephesthai*: verb, present, passive, infinitive - to conduct oneself/to behave
• *hētis*: pronoun, relative, nominative, feminine, singular - which
• *estin*: verb, present, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - is
• *ekklēsia*: noun, nominative, feminine, singular - church/assembly
• *zōntos*: participle, present, active, genitive, masculine, singular - living
• *stylos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - pillar
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hedraiōma*: noun, nominative, neuter, singular - support/foundation
• *tēs*: article, genitive, feminine, singular - of the
• *alētheias*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - truth

Word Meanings

• *Ean*: if/though/in case
• *bradynō*: I delay/I am slow/I tarry
• *eidēs*: you might know/you may know
• *pōs*: how/in what manner
• *dei*: it is necessary/must/ought
• *oikō*: house/household/family
• *Theou*: of God/God's
• *anastrephesthai*: to conduct oneself/to behave/to live
• *hētis*: which/that
• *ekklēsia*: church/assembly/congregation
• *zōntos*: living/alive
• *stylos*: pillar/column
• *hedraiōma*: support/foundation/bulwark
• *alētheias*: truth/reality

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Matt 16:16 : 16 and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
• 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.
• Matt 18:18 : 18 `Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
• Gal 2:9 : 9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go',
• Gal 3:1 : 1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?
• Eph 2:21-22 : 21 in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, 22 in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;
• Col 1:5 : 5 because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,
• 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
• 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
• John 1:17 : 17 for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
• John 6:69 : 69 and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
• John 18:37 : 37 Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say `it'; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
• Acts 1:2 : 2 till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,
• Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;
• Rom 3:2 : 2 much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;
• Rom 9:26 : 26 and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye `are' not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'
• 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,
• 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,
• Deut 5:26 : 26 For who of all flesh `is' he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?
• Deut 31:23 : 23 and He commandeth Joshua son of Nun, and saith, `Be strong and courageous, for thou dost bring in the sons of Israel unto the land which I have sworn to them, and I -- I am with thee.'
• Josh 3:10 : 10 and Joshua saith, `By this ye know that the living God `is' in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite:
• 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 And David speaketh unto the men who are standing by him, saying, `What is done to the man who smiteth this Philistine, and hath turned aside reproach from Israel? for who `is' this uncircumcised Philistine that he hath reproached the ranks of the living God?'
• 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Both the lion and the bear hath thy servant smitten, and this uncircumcised Philistine hath been as one of them, for he hath reproached the ranks of the living God.'
• 1 Kgs 2:2 : 2 `I am going in the way of all the earth, and thou hast been strong, and become a man,
• 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 so that Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake unto me, saying, If thy sons observe their way to walk before Me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul; saying, There is not cut off a man of thine from the throne of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 19:4 : 4 `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
• 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 then thou dost prosper, if thou dost observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down.
• 1 Chr 28:9-9 : 9 `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever. 10 See, now, for Jehovah hath fixed on thee to build a house for a sanctuary; be strong, and do.' 11 And David giveth to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of its houses, and of its treasures, and of its upper chambers, and of its innermost chambers, and of the house of the atonement; 12 and the pattern of all that hath been by the Spirit with him, for the courts of the house of Jehovah, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of God, and for the treasures of the things sacrificed; 13 and for the courses of the priests and of the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all vessels of service of the house of Jehovah, 14 even gold by weight, for `things of' gold, for all instruments of service and service; for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of service and service; 15 and `by' weight for the candlesticks of gold, and their lamps of gold, by weight `for' candlestick and candlestick, and its lamps; and for the candlesticks of silver, by weight for a candlestick and its lamps, according to the service of candlestick and candlestick; 16 and the gold `by' weight for tables of the arrangement, for table and table, and silver for the tables of silver; 17 and the forks, and the bowls, and the cups of pure gold, and for the basins of gold, by weight for basin and basin, and for the basins of silver, by weight for basin and basin, 18 and for the altar of perfume refined gold by weight, and for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubs of gold -- spreading and covering over the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. 19 The whole `is' in writing from the hand of Jehovah, `He caused me to understand all the work of the pattern,' `said David.' 20 And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, `is' with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah. 21 `And lo, courses of the priests and of the Levites `are' for all the service of the house of God; and with thee in all work `is' every willing one with wisdom, for every service; and the heads and all the people `are' according to all thy words.'
• Ps 42:2 : 2 My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
• Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
• Jer 1:18 : 18 And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land;
• Jer 10:10 : 10 And Jehovah `is' a God of truth, He `is' a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.
• Jer 23:36 : 36 And the burden of Jehovah ye do not mention any more, For the burden to each is -- His word, And ye have overturned the words of the living God, Jehovah of Hosts, our God.
• Dan 6:26 : 26 From before me is made a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom they are trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for He `is' the living God, and abiding to the ages, and His kingdom that which `is' not destroyed, and His dominion `is' unto the end.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye `are' not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;
• 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom `is' honour and might age-during! Amen.
• 2 Tim 2:20 : 20 And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:
• Heb 3:2-6 : 2 being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house, 3 for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it, 4 for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build `is' God, 5 and Moses indeed `was' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken, 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.
• Heb 3:12 : 12 See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
• Matt 16:18-19 : 18 `And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it; 19 and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'
• Rev 7:2 : 2 and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,