Luke 10:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed `is' abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔλεγεν οὖν πρὸς αὐτούς, Ὁ μὲν θερισμὸς πολύς, οἱ δὲ ἐργάται ὀλίγοι: δεήθητε οὖν τοῦ Κυρίου τοῦ θερισμοῦ, ὅπως ἐκβάλλῃ ἐργάτας εἰς τὸν θερισμὸν αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

Elegen oun pros them, The men therismos polys, the de ergatai oligoi: deēthēte oun of the Kyriou of the therismou, hopōs ekballē ergatas into the therismon of him.

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd singular - was saying/kept saying
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/so
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *men*: postpositive particle marking contrast with *de* - on one hand
• *therismos*: nominative, masculine, singular - harvest
• *polys*: nominative, masculine, singular - much/great/abundant
• *de*: postpositive conjunction marking contrast with *men* - but/and/on the other hand
• *ergatai*: nominative, masculine, plural - workers/laborers
• *oligoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - few/little
• *deēthēte*: aorist passive imperative, 2nd plural - request/beseech/pray to
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Lord/Master
• *therismou*: genitive, masculine, singular - harvest
• *hopōs*: conjunction + subjunctive - so that/in order that
• *ekballē*: present active subjunctive, 3rd singular - send out/thrust out
• *ergatas*: accusative, masculine, plural - workers/laborers
• *therismon*: accusative, masculine, singular - harvest

Word Meanings

• *Elegen*: was saying/kept saying/continued to say
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *therismos*: harvest/crop/reaping
• *polys*: much/great/abundant/plentiful
• *ergatai*: workers/laborers/those who work
• *deēthēte*: request/beseech/pray to/ask earnestly
• *Kyriou*: Lord/Master/Owner
• *ekballē*: send out/thrust out/drive out/push out

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:36-38 : 36 And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd, 37 then saith he to his disciples, `The harvest indeed `is' abundant, but the workmen few; 38 beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'
• 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.
• 1 Tim 4:15-16 : 15 of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things; 16 take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.
• 2 Thess 3:1 : 1 As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,
• 1 Tim 1:12-14 : 12 And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put `me' to the ministration, 13 who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it' in unbelief, 14 and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that `is' in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth; 7 so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God; 8 and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour, 9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
• Mark 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
• Jer 3:15 : 15 And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
• Ezek 34:2-6 : 2 `Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them: To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the shepherds of Israel, Who have been feeding themselves! The flock do not the shepherds feed? 3 The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not. 4 The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour. 5 And they are scattered from want of a shepherd, And are for food to every beast of the field, Yea, they are scattered. 6 Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking.
• John 4:35-38 : 35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already. 36 `And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together; 37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper. 38 I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.
• 1 Thess 5:12 : 12 And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,
• 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching, 18 for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy `is' the workman of his reward.'
• 2 Tim 2:3-6 : 3 thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ; 4 no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please; 5 and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully; 6 the labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,
• Phlm 1:1 : 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,
• Heb 3:6 : 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.
• Rev 2:1 : 1 `To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands -- the golden:
• Acts 8:4 : 4 they then indeed, having been scattered, went abroad proclaiming good news -- the word.
• Acts 11:19 : 19 Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;
• Acts 13:2 : 2 and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'
• Acts 13:4 : 4 These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,
• Acts 16:9-9 : 9 And a vision through the night appeared to Paul -- a certain man of Macedonia was standing, calling upon him, and saying, `Having passed through to Macedonia, help us;' -- 10 and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,
• Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
• Zech 11:5 : 5 Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.
• Zech 11:17 : 17 Wo `to' the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword `is' on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!'
• Num 11:17 : 17 and I have come down and spoken with thee there, and have kept back of the Spirit which `is' upon thee, and have put on them, and they have borne with thee some of the burden of the people, and thou dost not bear `it' thyself alone.
• Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah's people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!'
• 1 Kgs 18:22 : 22 And Elijah saith unto the people, `I -- I have been left a prophet of Jehovah -- by myself; and the prophets of Baal `are' four hundred and fifty men;
• 1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, `Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, `Go up, and the Lord doth give `it' into the hand of the king.' 7 And Jehoshaphat saith, `Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, and we seek by him?' 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.'
• Ps 68:11 : 11 The Lord doth give the saying, The female proclaimers `are' a numerous host.
• Isa 56:9-9 : 9 Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest. 10 Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 And the dogs `are' strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they `are' shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter: 12 `Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'
• Mark 16:20 : 20 and they, having gone forth, did preach everywhere, the Lord working with `them', and confirming the word, through the signs following. Amen.
• Luke 9:1 : 1 And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses,
• Matt 20:1 : 1 `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,
• Mark 13:34 : 34 as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;
• Acts 26:15-18 : 15 `And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; 16 but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things `in which' I will appear to thee, 17 delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;
• 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;
• 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;
• 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --
• Eph 4:7-9 : 7 and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, 8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' -- 9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? 10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things -- 11 and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers, 12 unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
• Phil 2:21 : 21 for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
• Phil 2:25 : 25 And I thought `it' necessary Epaphroditus -- my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need -- to send unto you,
• Phil 2:30 : 30 because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.
• Col 1:29 : 29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
• Col 4:12 : 12 Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,
• Acts 22:21 : 21 and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'
• Rev 11:2-3 : 2 and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months; 3 and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;