Matthew 1:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τέξεται δὲ υἱὸν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν: αὐτὸς γὰρ σώσει τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν.

Transliteration

She will texetai de huion, and you will kaleseis the onoma of him Iēsoun: he gar will sōsei the laon of him from the hamartiōn of them.

Grammar Details

• *Texetai*: future, indicative, middle, 3rd person singular - will bear/give birth to
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but/now
• *huion*: accusative, masculine, singular - son
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *kaleseis*: future, indicative, active, 2nd person singular - you will call/name
• *to*: accusative, neuter, singular, article - the
• *onoma*: accusative, neuter, singular - name
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, proper name - Jesus
• *autos*: nominative, masculine, singular, intensive pronoun - he himself
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *sōsei*: future, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - will save
• *ton*: accusative, masculine, singular, article - the
• *laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people
• *apo*: preposition governing genitive - from
• *tōn*: genitive, feminine, plural, article - the
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - sins
• *autōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of them

Word Meanings

• *texetai*: will bear/give birth to
• *de*: and/but/now/then
• *huion*: son/male child
• *kaleseis*: you will call/name/designate
• *onoma*: name/title/character
• *Iēsoun*: Jesus [from Hebrew 'Yeshua'/'Joshua' meaning 'YHWH saves']
• *gar*: for/because/indeed
• *sōsei*: will save/rescue/deliver
• *laon*: people/nation/population
• *hamartiōn*: sins/moral failures/offenses

Referenced Verses

• Acts 13:23 : 23 `Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus,
• Luke 2:21 : 21 And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.
• John 1:29 : 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;
• Acts 4:12 : 12 and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'
• Acts 5:31 : 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;
• Luke 1:31 : 31 and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;
• Col 1:20-23 : 20 and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens. 21 And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself, 23 if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that `is' under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, 39 and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, 2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
• Rev 1:5-6 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood, 6 and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him `is' the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.
• Luke 2:11 : 11 because there was born to you to-day a Saviour -- who is Christ the Lord -- in the city of David,
• Rev 7:14 : 14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
• 1 John 3:5 : 5 and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
• Heb 7:25 : 25 whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
• Acts 3:26 : 26 to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'
• Luke 1:35-36 : 35 And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God; 36 and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;
• Dan 9:24 : 24 `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous -- and saved is He, Afflicted -- and riding on an ass, And on a colt -- a son of she-asses.
• Luke 1:13 : 13 and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,
• Gen 17:19 : 19 and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.
• Gen 17:21 : 21 and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'
• Gen 18:10 : 10 and he saith, `returning I return unto thee, about the time of life, and lo, to Sarah thy wife a son.'
• 2 Kgs 4:16-17 : 16 and he saith, `At this season, according to the time of life, thou art embracing a son;' and she saith, `Nay, my lord, O man of God, do not lie unto thy maid-servant.' 17 And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto her.
• Ps 130:7-8 : 7 Israel doth wait on Jehovah, For with Jehovah `is' kindness, And abundant with Him `is' redemption. 8 And He doth redeem Israel from all his iniquities!
• Isa 12:1-2 : 1 And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me. 2 Lo, God `is' my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song `is' Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.
• Isa 45:21-22 : 21 Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I -- Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me. 22 Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I `am' God, and there is none else.
• Jer 23:6 : 6 In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'
• Jer 33:16 : 16 In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this `is' he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.'
• Eph 5:25-27 : 25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying, 27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
• Ezek 36:25-29 : 25 And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. 27 And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them. 28 And ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to you for God. 29 And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you.
• Judg 13:3 : 3 and a messenger of Jehovah appeareth unto the woman, and saith unto her, `Lo, I pray thee, thou `art' barren, and hast not borne; when thou hast conceived, then thou hast borne a son.