John 7:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ δύναται ὁ κόσμος μισεῖν ὑμᾶς· ἐμὲ δὲ μισεῖ, ὅτι ἐγὼ μαρτυρῶ περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ πονηρά ἐστιν.

Transliteration

Not dynatai the kosmos misein you; eme de misei, because egō martyrō peri it, that the erga its ponēra estin.

Grammar Details

• *dynatai*: present middle/passive, 3rd singular - is able/can
• *kosmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - world
• *misein*: present infinitive - to hate
• *eme*: accusative, 1st singular - me
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *misei*: present indicative, 3rd singular - hates
• *egō*: nominative, 1st singular - I
• *martyrō*: present indicative, 1st singular - testify/witness
• *peri*: preposition + genitive - concerning/about
• *erga*: nominative, neuter, plural - works/deeds
• *ponēra*: nominative, neuter, plural - evil/wicked
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is/are

Word Meanings

• *dynatai*: is able/can/has power
• *kosmos*: world/universe/ordered system
• *misein*: to hate/detest
• *misei*: hates/detests
• *martyrō*: testify/bear witness/give evidence
• *erga*: works/deeds/actions
• *ponēra*: evil/wicked/worthless/harmful

Referenced Verses

• John 15:18-19 : 18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
• John 3:19 : 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
• Prov 9:7-8 : 7 The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
• Gal 4:16 : 16 so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
• 1 John 4:5 : 5 They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;
• Prov 15:12 : 12 A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
• 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;
• John 17:14 : 14 I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
• Acts 5:28-33 : 28 saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.' 29 And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men; 30 and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree; 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins; 32 and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.' 33 And they having heard, were cut `to the heart', and were taking counsel to slay them,
• John 15:23-25 : 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; 25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
• 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.'
• Isa 29:21 : 21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
• Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.'
• Jer 20:8 : 8 Because from the time I speak I cry out, `Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day.
• Amos 7:7-9 : 7 Thus hath He shewed me, and lo, the Lord is standing by a wall `made according to' a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line; 8 and Jehovah saith unto me, `What art thou seeing, Amos?' And I say, `A plumb-line;' and the Lord saith: `Lo, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it. 9 And desolated have been high places of Isaac, And sanctuaries of Israel are wasted, And I have risen against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.' 10 And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sendeth unto Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, `Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words, 11 for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.' 12 And Amaziah saith unto Amos, `Seer, go flee for thee unto the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there thou dost prophesy; 13 and `at' Beth-El do not add to prophesy any more, for it `is' the king's sanctuary, and it `is' the royal house.'
• Zech 11:8 : 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.
• Luke 6:26 : 26 `Wo to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.
• Luke 11:39-54 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; 40 unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make? 41 But what ye have give ye `as' alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you. 42 `But wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting. 43 `Wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places. 44 `Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.' 45 And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;' 46 and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, wo! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens. 47 `Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs; 49 because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute, 50 that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation. 52 `Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.' 53 And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, 54 laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
• Rev 11:5-9 : 5 and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed. 6 These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will. 7 `And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies `are' upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,) 9 and they shall behold -- they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations -- their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs, 10 and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these -- the two prophets -- did torment those dwelling upon the land.' 11 And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
• 1 John 3:12-13 : 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;
• Acts 7:51-54 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye; 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become, 53 who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep `it'.' 54 And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;