Luke 1:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ αὐτὸς προελεύσεται ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει Ἠλίου, ἐπιστρέψαι καρδίας πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκνα, καὶ ἀπειθεῖς ἐν φρονήσει δικαίων· ἑτοιμάσαι Κυρίῳ λαὸν κατεσκευασμένον.

Transliteration

Kai autos proeleusetai enōpion autou en pneumati kai dynamei Ēliou, epistrepsai kardias paterōn epi tekna, kai apeitheis en phronēsei dikaiōn; hetoimasai Kyriō laon kateskeuasmenon.

Grammar Details

• *Kai*: conjunction - and
• *autos*: nominative, masculine, singular, intensive pronoun - he himself
• *proeleusetai*: future, indicative, middle, 3rd person singular - will go before
• *enōpion*: preposition + genitive - before, in the presence of
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *en pneumati*: preposition + dative, neuter, singular - in spirit
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *dynamei*: dative, feminine, singular - power
• *Ēliou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Elijah
• *epistrepsai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to turn
• *kardias*: accusative, feminine, plural - hearts
• *paterōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of fathers
• *epi*: preposition + accusative - to, toward
• *tekna*: accusative, neuter, plural - children
• *apeitheis*: accusative, masculine, plural - disobedient
• *en phronēsei*: preposition + dative, feminine, singular - in wisdom, understanding
• *dikaiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of righteous ones
• *hetoimasai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to prepare
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - for the Lord
• *laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people
• *kateskeuasmenon*: perfect, passive, participle, accusative, masculine, singular - having been prepared

Word Meanings

• *proeleusetai*: will go before/will precede/will come before
• *enōpion*: before/in the presence of/in the sight of
• *pneumati*: spirit/breath/wind
• *dynamei*: power/might/strength
• *epistrepsai*: to turn/to convert/to return
• *apeitheis*: disobedient/unbelieving/rebellious
• *phronēsei*: wisdom/understanding/prudence
• *dikaiōn*: righteous ones/just ones
• *hetoimasai*: to prepare/to make ready
• *kateskeuasmenon*: prepared/made ready/equipped

Referenced Verses

• Mal 4:5-6 : 5 Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful. 6 And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!
• Matt 11:14 : 14 and if ye are willing to receive `it', he is Elijah who was about to come;
• Ps 78:8 : 8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God `is' its spirit.
• Luke 1:76 : 76 And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.
• John 1:21-30 : 21 And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.' 22 They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?' 23 He said, `I `am' a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.' 24 And those sent were of the Pharisees, 25 and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?' 26 John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me, 27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.' 28 These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing, 29 on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world; 30 this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:
• John 3:28 : 28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;
• Matt 17:11-12 : 11 And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, 12 and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'
• Mark 9:11-13 : 11 And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first. 12 And he answering said to them, `Elijah indeed, having come first, doth restore all things; and how hath it been written concerning the Son of Man, that many things he may suffer, and be set at nought? 13 But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'
• Rev 20:4 : 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;
• Col 1:12 : 12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
• Ps 111:10 : 10 The beginning of wisdom `is' fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise `is' standing for ever!
• 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 `O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;
• Isa 29:24 : 24 And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
• 2 Pet 3:11-14 : 11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? 12 waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; 13 and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell; 14 wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
• 2 Tim 2:21 : 21 if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
• Acts 10:33 : 33 at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'
• Rom 9:23 : 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --
• Luke 1:16 : 16 and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God,
• Matt 21:29-32 : 29 And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went. 30 `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I `go', sir, and went not; 31 which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God, 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.
• John 1:34 : 34 and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'
• Luke 3:7-9 : 7 Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham; 9 and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.' 10 And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?' 11 and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.' 12 And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?' 13 and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.' 14 And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'
• John 1:13 : 13 who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.
• Amos 4:12 : 12 Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, `Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.'
• 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;
• 2 Kgs 1:4-6 : 4 and therefore, thus said Jehovah, The bed whither thou hast gone up, thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die;' and Elijah goeth on. 5 And the messengers turn back unto him, and he saith unto them, `What `is' this -- ye have turned back!' 6 And they say unto him, `A man hath come up to meet us, and saith unto us, Go, turn back unto the king who sent you, and ye have said unto him, Thus said Jehovah, Is it because there is not a God in Israel -- thou art sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron? therefore, the bed whither thou hast gone up, thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die.'
• 2 Chr 29:36 : 36 and rejoice doth Hezekiah and all the people, because of God's giving preparation to the people, for the thing hath been suddenly.
• Ps 10:17 : 17 The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,
• Matt 14:4 : 4 for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'
• Matt 3:7-9 : 7 And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, 9 and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, 10 and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast. 11 `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, 12 whose fan `is' in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
• 1 Sam 7:5 : 5 and Samuel saith, `Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I pray for you unto Jehovah.'
• Matt 3:4 : 4 And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.
• 2 Kgs 1:16 : 16 and speaketh unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron -- is it because there is not a God in Israel to inquire of His word? therefore, the bed whither thou hast gone up -- thou dost not come down from it, for thou dost certainly die.'
• 1 Kgs 18:18 : 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;
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;