Matthew 27:39

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Οἱ δὲ παραπορευόμενοι ἐβλασφήμουν αὐτὸν, κινοῦντες τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν,

Transliteration

But those paraporeuomenoi eblasphēmoun him, kinountes the kephalas of them,

Grammar Details

• *paraporeuomenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - passing by
• *eblasphēmoun*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd plural - were blaspheming/reviling
• *kinountes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - shaking/moving
• *kephalas*: accusative, feminine, plural - heads

Word Meanings

• *paraporeuomenoi*: passing by/going past
• *eblasphēmoun*: were blaspheming/reviling/insulting [continuous action]
• *kinountes*: shaking/moving/wagging [gesture of derision]

Referenced Verses

• Ps 109:25 : 25 And I -- I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.
• Lam 1:12 : 12 `Is it' nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.
• Lam 2:15-17 : 15 Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?' 16 Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed `her' up, Surely this `is' the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.' 17 Jehovah hath done that which He devised, He hath fulfilled His saying That He commanded from the days of old, He hath broken down and hath not pitied, And causeth an enemy to rejoice over thee, He lifted up the horn of thine adversaries.
• Mark 15:29-30 : 29 And those passing by were speaking evil of him, shaking their heads, and saying, `Ah, the thrower down of the sanctuary, and in three days the builder! 30 save thyself, and come down from the cross!'
• Luke 23:35-39 : 35 And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.' 36 And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him, 37 and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.' 38 And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.' 39 And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'
• 1 Pet 2:22-24 : 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, 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
• Job 16:4 : 4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
• Ps 22:6-7 : 6 And I `am' a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people. 7 All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,
• Ps 22:17 : 17 I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,
• Ps 31:11-13 : 11 Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me. 12 I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel. 13 For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear `is' round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,
• Ps 35:15-21 : 15 And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased; 16 With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth. 17 Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one. 18 I thank Thee in a great assembly, Among a mighty people I praise Thee. 19 Mine enemies rejoice not over me `with' falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye. 20 For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise, 21 And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, `Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'
• Ps 69:7-9 : 7 For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face. 8 A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother. 9 For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me. 10 And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me. 11 And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile. 12 Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.
• Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.
• Ps 109:2 : 2 For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!