Matthew 11:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄρατε τὸν ζυγόν μου ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς, καὶ μάθετε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ· ὅτι πρᾷός εἰμι καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ: καὶ εὑρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Arate the zygon of me upon you, and mathete from me; because praos I am and tapeinos in the kardia: and you will heurēsete anapausin for the psychais of you.

Grammar Details

• *Arate*: aorist imperative, active, 2nd plural - take up
• *zygon*: accusative, masculine, singular - yoke
• *mathete*: aorist imperative, active, 2nd plural - learn
• *praos*: nominative, masculine, singular - gentle/meek
• *tapeinos*: nominative, masculine, singular - humble/lowly
• *kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
• *heurēsete*: future, active, 2nd plural - you will find
• *anapausin*: accusative, feminine, singular - rest
• *psychais*: dative, feminine, plural - souls

Word Meanings

• *Arate*: take up/lift
• *zygon*: yoke/joining
• *mathete*: learn/be instructed
• *praos*: gentle/meek/mild
• *tapeinos*: humble/lowly/meek
• *kardia*: heart/inner self
• *heurēsete*: you will find/discover
• *anapausin*: rest/relief/refreshment
• *psychais*: souls/lives/selves

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 2:6 : 6 He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
• Phil 2:7-8 : 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
• Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'
• John 13:15 : 15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
• Phil 2:5 : 5 For, let this mind be in you that `is' also in Christ Jesus,
• 1 Pet 2:21-23 : 21 for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps, 22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth, 23 who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,
• 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed `am' humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,
• John 15:10-14 : 10 if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love; 11 these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full. 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; 13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; 14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
• 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.
• Matt 7:24 : 24 `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
• Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,
• Heb 4:3-9 : 3 for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world, 4 for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh `day' thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;' 5 and in this `place' again, `If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' 6 since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief -- 7 again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,' 8 for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things; 9 there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, 10 for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. 11 May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
• Matt 21:5 : 5 `Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo, thy king doth come to thee, meek, and mounted on an ass, and a colt, a foal of a beast of burden.'
• Num 12:3 : 3 And the man Moses `is' very humble, more than any of the men who `are' on the face of the ground.
• Ps 131:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me.
• Isa 42:1-4 : 1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth. 2 He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street. 3 A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment. 4 He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
• John 13:17 : 17 if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;
• John 14:21-24 : 21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' 22 Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' 23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make; 24 he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
• Acts 3:22-23 : 22 `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; 23 and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;
• Acts 7:37 : 37 this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
• Luke 6:46-48 : 46 `And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say? 47 Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like; 48 he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.
• Luke 8:35 : 35 and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came unto Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;
• Luke 9:51-56 : 51 And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of his being taken up, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem, 52 and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him, 53 and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem. 54 And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou `that' we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?' 55 and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, `Ye have not known of what spirit ye are; 56 for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.
• Luke 10:39-42 : 39 and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word, 40 and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.' 41 And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things, 42 but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
• Matt 11:27-28 : 27 `All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal `Him'. 28 `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
• Matt 12:19-20 : 19 he shall not strive nor cry, nor shall any hear in the broad places his voice, 20 a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
• Eph 4:20-21 : 20 and ye did not so learn the Christ, 21 if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;
• 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• 1 Cor 9:21 : 21 to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;