Matthew 24:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἀποστελεῖ τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ μετὰ σάλπιγγος φωνῆς μεγάλης, καὶ ἐπισυνάξουσιν τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀνέμων, ἀπʼ ἄκρων οὐρανῶν ἕως ἄκρων αὐτῶν.

Transliteration

And he apostelei the angelous of him with salpingos phōnēs megalēs, and they episynaxousin the eklektous of him from the four anemōn, from akrōn of ouranōn to akrōn of them.

Grammar Details

• *apostelei*: future active, 3rd person singular - will send forth
• *angelous*: accusative masculine plural - angels/messengers
• *salpingos*: genitive feminine singular - of trumpet
• *phōnēs*: genitive feminine singular - of sound/voice
• *megalēs*: genitive feminine singular - great/loud
• *episynaxousin*: future active, 3rd person plural - will gather together
• *eklektous*: accusative masculine plural - chosen ones/elect
• *anemōn*: genitive masculine plural - of winds
• *akrōn*: genitive neuter plural - extremities/ends
• *ouranōn*: genitive masculine plural - of heavens

Word Meanings

• *apostelei*: will send forth/dispatch
• *angelous*: angels/messengers
• *salpingos*: trumpet/horn
• *phōnēs*: sound/voice/noise
• *megalēs*: great/loud/mighty
• *episynaxousin*: will gather together/assemble/collect
• *eklektous*: chosen ones/elect/selected ones
• *anemōn*: winds/directions
• *akrōn*: extremities/ends/boundaries
• *ouranōn*: heavens/skies

Referenced Verses

• Isa 27:13 : 13 And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount -- in Jerusalem!
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we -- we shall be changed:
• 2 Thess 2:1 : 1 And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,
• Mark 13:27 : 27 and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.
• Matt 13:41 : 41 the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,
• Matt 24:22 : 22 And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.
• John 11:52 : 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
• Zech 14:5 : 5 And ye have fled `to' the valley of My mountains, For join doth the valley of the mountains to Azal, And ye have fled as ye fled before the shaking, In the days of Uzziah king of Judah, And come in hath Jehovah my God, All holy ones `are' with Thee.
• Eph 1:10 : 10 in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;
• Acts 26:19-20 : 19 `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
• Rom 10:18 : 18 but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- `to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'
• Mark 16:15-16 : 15 and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation; 16 he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
• Rev 1:20-2:1 : 20 the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies. 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:
• Rev 7:1 : 1 And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree;
• Rev 8:2 : 2 and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets,
• Rev 11:15 : 15 And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become `those' of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'
• Rev 14:6-9 : 6 And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people, 7 saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.' 8 And another messenger did follow, saying, `Fall, fall, did Babylon, the great city, because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom she hath given to all nations to drink.' 9 And a third messenger did follow them, saying in a great voice, `If any one the beast doth bow before, and his image, and doth receive a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand,
• Matt 25:31 : 31 `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;
• Matt 28:18 : 18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, 2 `Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps; 3 and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting. 4 And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee; 5 `And ye have blown -- a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed. 6 `And ye have blown -- a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys. 7 `And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout; 8 and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations. 9 `And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies. 10 `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, `am' your God.'
• Deut 30:4 : 4 `If thine outcast is in the extremity of the heavens, thence doth Jehovah thy God gather thee, and thence He doth take thee;
• Ps 22:27 : 27 Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations,
• Ps 67:7 : 7 God doth bless us, and all ends of earth fear Him!
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
• Isa 11:12 : 12 And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.
• Isa 13:5 : 5 They are coming in from a land afar off, From the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation, To destroy all the land.
• Isa 42:10 : 10 Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness, Isles, and their inhabitants.
• Isa 43:6 : 6 I am saying to the north, `Give up,' And to the south, `Restrain not.' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth.
• Isa 45:22 : 22 Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I `am' God, and there is none else.
• Isa 49:18 : 18 Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, They have come to thee. I live, an affirmation of Jehovah! Surely all of them as an ornament thou puttest on, And thou bindest them on like a bride.
• Isa 60:4 : 4 Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, they have come to thee, Thy sons from afar do come, And thy daughters on the side are supported.
• Dan 7:2 : 2 Answered hath Daniel and said, `I was seeing in my vision by night, and lo, the four winds of the heavens are coming forth to the great sea;
• Zech 2:6 : 6 Ho, ho, and flee from the land of the north, An affirmation of Jehovah, For, as the four winds of the heavens, I have spread you abroad, An affirmation of Jehovah.
• Zech 9:10 : 10 And I have cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem, Yea, cut off hath been the bow of battle, And he hath spoken peace to nations, And his rule `is' from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.
• Zech 9:14 : 14 And Jehovah doth appear for them, And gone forth as lightning hath His arrow, And the Lord Jehovah with a trumpet bloweth, And He hath gone with whirlwinds of the south.