Matthew 24:37

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and as the days of Noah -- so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὥσπερ δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ἡ παρουσία τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.

Transliteration

But just as the hēmerai of the Nōe, so estai also the parousia of the Huiou of the anthrōpou.

Grammar Details

• *hēmerai*: nominative feminine plural - days
• *Nōe*: genitive masculine singular - of Noah
• *estai*: future middle, 3rd person singular - will be
• *parousia*: nominative feminine singular - coming/presence
• *Huiou*: genitive masculine singular - of Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive masculine singular - of man

Word Meanings

• *hēmerai*: days/times
• *Nōe*: Noah
• *estai*: will be/shall be
• *parousia*: coming/presence/arrival
• *Huiou*: Son
• *anthrōpou*: of man/human/mankind

Referenced Verses

• Luke 17:26-27 : 26 `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;
• Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.
• 1 Pet 3:20-21 : 20 who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water; 21 also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
• 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,
• 2 Pet 3:6 : 6 through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;
• Gen 6:1-7 : 1 And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, 2 and sons of God see the daughters of men that they `are' fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen. 3 And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they `are' flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years. 4 The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they `are' the heroes, who, from of old, `are' the men of name. 5 And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day; 6 and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart. 7 And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'
• Gen 7:6-9 : 6 and Noah `is' a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth. 7 And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge; 8 of the clean beasts and of the beasts that `are' not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground, 9 two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah. 10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened, 12 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark; 14 they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird -- every wing. 15 And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which `is' a living spirit; 16 and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close `it' for him. 17 And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth; 18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which `are' under the whole heavens; 20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered; 21 and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind; 22 all in whose nostrils `is' breath of a living spirit -- of all that `is' in the dry land -- have died. 23 And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who `are' with him in the ark;
• Job 22:15-17 : 15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? 16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation. 17 Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
• Matt 24:39 : 39 and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.