2 Corinthians 10:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

(Τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας ἡμῶν οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ τῷ Θεῷ πρὸς καθαίρεσιν ὀχυρωμάτων·) ⋄Λογισμούς καθαιροῦντες,

Transliteration

(The Ta gar hopla of the tēs strateias of us hēmōn not ou sarkika, but alla dunata to the tō Theō for pros kathairesin ochurōmatōn;) Logismous kathairountes,

Grammar Details

• *Ta*: nominative/accusative, neuter, plural article - the
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *hopla*: nominative/accusative, neuter, plural - weapons/tools/equipment
• *tēs*: genitive, feminine, singular article - the
• *strateias*: genitive, feminine, singular - warfare/campaign/expedition
• *hēmōn*: genitive, plural personal pronoun - of us/our
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *sarkika*: nominative, neuter, plural adjective - fleshly/carnal
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *dunata*: nominative, neuter, plural adjective - powerful/mighty/able
• *tō*: dative, masculine, singular article - the
• *Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - God
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - for/toward
• *kathairesin*: accusative, feminine, singular - demolition/destruction/tearing down
• *ochurōmatōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - strongholds/fortresses
• *Logismous*: accusative, masculine, plural - reasonings/thoughts/arguments
• *kathairountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - demolishing/destroying/tearing down

Word Meanings

• *hopla*: weapons/tools/equipment/armor
• *strateias*: warfare/campaign/expedition/military service
• *sarkika*: fleshly/carnal/worldly/human
• *dunata*: powerful/mighty/able/strong
• *Theō*: God/deity
• *kathairesin*: demolition/destruction/pulling down/removal
• *ochurōmatōn*: strongholds/fortresses/fortifications
• *Logismous*: reasonings/thoughts/arguments/speculations
• *kathairountes*: demolishing/destroying/tearing down/removing

Referenced Verses

• Jer 1:10 : 10 See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'
• 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,
• 2 Cor 13:3-4 : 3 since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you, 4 for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.
• 1 Cor 2:5 : 5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,
• Eph 6:13-18 : 13 because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand. 14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness, 15 and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace; 16 above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench, 17 and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God, 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
• 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
• Isa 41:14-16 : 14 Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest. 16 Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
• 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
• Josh 6:20 : 20 And the people shout, and blow with the trumpets, and it cometh to pass when the people hear the voice of the trumpet, that the people shout -- a great shout, and the wall falleth under it, and the people goeth up into the city, each over-against him, and they capture the city;
• 1 Sam 17:45-50 : 45 And David saith unto the Philistine, `Thou art coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming unto thee in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which thou hast reproached. 46 This day doth Jehovah shut thee up into my hand -- and I have smitten thee, and turned aside thy head from off thee, and given the carcase of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth do know that God is for Israel. 47 and all this assembly do know that not by sword and by spear doth Jehovah save, that the battle `is' Jehovah's, and He hath given you into our hand.' 48 And it hath come to pass, that the Philistine hath risen, and goeth, and draweth near to meet David, and David hasteth and runneth to the rank to meet the Philistine, 49 and David putteth forth his hand unto the vessel, and taketh thence a stone, and slingeth, and smiteth the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sinketh into his forehead, and he falleth on his face to the earth. 50 And David is stronger than the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death, and there is no sword in the hand of David,
• Heb 11:30 : 30 by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;
• Heb 11:32-33 : 32 And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,
• 2 Tim 2:3 : 3 thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;
• Ps 110:2 : 2 The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.
• Isa 30:25 : 25 And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.
• Judg 7:13-23 : 13 And Gideon cometh in, and lo, a man is recounting to his companion a dream, and saith, `Lo, a dream I have dreamed, and lo, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it cometh in unto the tent, and smiteth it, and it falleth, and turneth it upwards, and the tent hath fallen.' 14 And his companion answereth and saith, `This is nothing save the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God hath given into his hand Midian and all the camp.' 15 And it cometh to pass, when Gideon heareth the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he boweth himself, and turneth back unto the camp of Israel, and saith, `Rise ye, for Jehovah hath given into your hand the camp of Midian.' 16 And he divideth the three hundred men `into' three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he saith unto them, `Look at me, and thus do; and lo, I am coming into the extremity of the camp -- and it hath been -- as I do so ye do; 18 and I have blown with a trumpet -- I and all who `are' with me, and ye have blown with trumpets, even ye, round about all the camp, and have said, For Jehovah and for Gideon.' 19 And Gideon cometh -- and the hundred men who `are' with him -- into the extremity of the camp, `at' the beginning of the middle watch (it hath only just confirmed the watchmen), and they blow with trumpets -- dashing in pieces also the pitchers which `are' in their hand; 20 and the three detachments blow with trumpets, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the trumpets to blow, and they cry, `The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.' 21 And they stand each in his place, round about the camp, and all the camp runneth, and they shout, and flee; 22 and the three hundred blow the trumpets, and Jehovah setteth the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp fleeth unto Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, unto the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath. 23 And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian.
• Judg 15:14-16 : 14 He hath come unto Lehi -- and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him -- and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which `are' on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands, 15 and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men. 16 And Samson saith, `With a jaw-bone of the ass -- an ass upon asses -- with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'
• Zech 4:6-7 : 6 And he answereth and speaketh unto me, saying: `This `is' a word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by a force, nor by power, But -- by My Spirit, said Jehovah of Hosts. 7 Who `art' thou, O great mountain Before Zerubbabel -- for a plain! And he hath brought forth the top-stone, Cries of Grace, grace -- `are' to it.'
• Acts 7:22 : 22 and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
• Rom 13:12 : 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
• 1 Cor 1:18-24 : 18 for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God, 19 for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;' 20 where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing. 22 Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, 24 and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,
• 1 Cor 9:7 : 7 who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?
• 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,
• 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.