Galatians 4:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὥστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα, ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;

Transliteration

So echthros of you I have gegona, alētheuōn to you?

Grammar Details

• *echthros*: nominative, masculine, singular - enemy/hostile person
• *gegona*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I have become
• *alētheuōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - speaking truth

Word Meanings

• *echthros*: enemy/hostile person/opponent
• *gegona*: I have become/turned into
• *alētheuōn*: speaking truth/telling the truth/being truthful

Referenced Verses

• Amos 5:10 : 10 They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.
• John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
• Ps 141:5 : 5 The righteous doth beat me `in' kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer `is' about their vexations.
• Prov 9:8 : 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
• Gal 2:5 : 5 to whom not even for an hour we gave place by subjection, that the truth of the good news might remain to you.
• Gal 5:7 : 7 Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?
• John 8:45 : 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
• 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;
• 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'
• 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 and thou hast said, Thus said the king, Place ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my coming in peace.'
• 2 Chr 24:20-22 : 20 and the Spirit of God hath clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he standeth over-against the people, and saith to them, `Thus said God, Why are ye transgressing the commands of Jehovah, and prosper not? because ye have forsaken Jehovah -- He doth forsake you.' 21 And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah, 22 and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, `Jehovah doth see, and require.'
• 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, `I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'
• 1 Kgs 18:17-18 : 17 and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, `Art thou he -- the troubler of Israel?' 18 And he saith, `I have not troubled Israel, but thou and the house of thy father, in your forsaking the commands of Jehovah, and thou goest after the Baalim;
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?
• Gal 3:1-4 : 1 O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth -- before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? 2 this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith? 3 so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end? 4 so many things did ye suffer in vain! if, indeed, even in vain.