Matthew 17:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and saying, `Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

καὶ λέγων, ⋄Κύριε, ἐλέησόν μου τὸν υἱόν: ὅτι σεληνιάζεται, καὶ κακῶς πάσχει: πολλάκις γὰρ πίπτει εἰς τὸ πῦρ, καὶ πολλάκις εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ.

Transliteration

and legōn, Kyrie, eleēson of me the huion: for selēniazetai, and kakōs paschei: pollakis gar piptei into the pyr, and pollakis into the hydōr.

Grammar Details

• *legōn*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *eleēson*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd singular - have mercy on
• *huion*: accusative, masculine, singular - son
• *selēniazetai*: present, passive, indicative, 3rd singular - is moonstruck/epileptic
• *kakōs*: adverb - badly/severely
• *paschei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd singular - suffers
• *pollakis*: adverb - often/frequently
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *piptei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd singular - falls
• *pyr*: accusative, neuter, singular - fire
• *hydōr*: accusative, neuter, singular - water

Word Meanings

• *Kyrie*: Lord/Master/Sir
• *eleēson*: have mercy on/show compassion to
• *selēniazetai*: is moonstruck/epileptic/has seizures
• *kakōs*: badly/severely/terribly
• *paschei*: suffers/experiences/endures
• *piptei*: falls/falls into/collapses

Referenced Verses

• Matt 4:24 : 24 and his fame went forth to all Syria, and they brought to him all having ailments, pressed with manifold sicknesses and pains, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them.
• Matt 8:31-32 : 31 and the demons were calling on him, saying, `If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;' 32 and he saith to them, `Go.' And having come forth, they went to the herd of the swine, and lo, the whole herd of the swine rushed down the steep, to the sea, and died in the waters,
• Matt 15:22 : 22 and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, `Deal kindly with me, Sir -- Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.'
• Mark 5:4-5 : 4 because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him, 5 and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.
• Mark 5:22-23 : 22 and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet, 23 and he was calling upon him much, saying -- `My little daughter is at the last extremity -- that having come, thou mayest lay on her `thy' hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'
• Mark 9:17-18 : 17 and one out of the multitude answering said, `Teacher, I brought my son unto thee, having a dumb spirit; 18 and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.'
• Mark 9:20-22 : 20 and they brought him unto him, and he having seen him, immediately the spirit tare him, and he, having fallen upon the earth, was wallowing -- foaming. 21 And he questioned his father, `How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, `From childhood, 22 and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.'
• Luke 9:38-42 : 38 and lo, a man from the multitude cried out, saying, `Teacher, I beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only begotten; 39 and lo, a spirit doth take him, and suddenly he doth cry out, and it teareth him, with foaming, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising him, 40 and I besought thy disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.' 41 And Jesus answering said, `O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring near hither thy son;' 42 and as he is yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tore `him' sore, and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.
• John 4:46-47 : 46 Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum, 47 he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.
• Job 1:10-19 : 10 Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about? 11 The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath -- if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!' 12 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, all that he hath `is' in thy hand, only unto him put not forth thy hand.' And the Adversary goeth out from the presence of Jehovah. 13 And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. 14 And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides, 15 and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.' 16 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.' 17 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.' 18 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. 19 And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.'
• Job 2:7 : 7 And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.