Matthew 3:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

whose fan `is' in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὗ τὸ πτύον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ διακαθαριεῖ τὴν ἅλωνα αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνάξει τὸν σῖτον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην· τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.

Transliteration

Of whom the ptyon in the cheiri of him, and diakathariei the halōna of him, and synaxei the siton of him into the apothēkēn; the de achyron katakausei pyri asbestō.

Grammar Details

• *ptyon*: nominative, neuter, singular - winnowing fork/fan
• *cheiri*: dative, feminine, singular - in hand
• *diakathariei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will thoroughly clean
• *halōna*: accusative, feminine, singular - threshing floor
• *synaxei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will gather
• *siton*: accusative, masculine, singular - wheat/grain
• *apothēkēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - barn/storehouse
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *achyron*: accusative, neuter, singular - chaff
• *katakausei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will burn up
• *pyri*: dative, neuter, singular - with fire
• *asbestō*: dative, neuter, singular - unquenchable

Word Meanings

• *ptyon*: winnowing fork/fan/shovel
• *diakathariei*: will thoroughly clean/will clear completely/will purge
• *halōna*: threshing floor/threshing area
• *synaxei*: will gather/will collect/will bring together
• *siton*: wheat/grain/corn
• *apothēkēn*: barn/storehouse/granary
• *achyron*: chaff/straw/husks
• *katakausei*: will burn up/will consume with fire/will incinerate
• *asbestō*: unquenchable/inextinguishable/that cannot be put out

Referenced Verses

• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,
• Matt 13:30 : 30 suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'
• Jer 7:20 : 20 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, Mine anger and My fury is poured out on this place, On man, and beast, and on tree of the field, And on fruit of the ground, And it hath burned, and it is not quenched.
• Luke 3:17 : 17 whose winnowing shovel `is' in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
• Isa 41:16 : 16 Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
• Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!
• 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,
• Jer 51:2 : 2 And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil.
• Ps 35:5 : 5 They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.
• Isa 1:31 : 31 And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!
• Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.
• Isa 17:13 : 13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
• Isa 30:24 : 24 And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
• Isa 66:24 : 24 And they have gone forth, And looked on the carcases of the men Who are transgressing against me, For their worm dieth not, And their fire is not quenched, And they have been an abhorrence to all flesh!
• Jer 15:7 : 7 And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.
• Jer 17:27 : 27 And if ye do not hearken unto me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it hath consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!'
• Mal 3:2-3 : 2 And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he `is' as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller. 3 And he hath sat, a refiner and purifier of silver, And he hath purified the sons of Levi, And hath refined them as gold and as silver, And they have been to Jehovah bringing nigh a present in righteousness.
• Job 21:18 : 18 They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
• John 15:2 : 2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
• Jer 4:11 : 11 At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)
• Ezek 20:47-48 : 47 and thou hast said to the forest of the south: Hear a word of Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am kindling in thee a fire, And it hath devoured in thee every moist tree, and every dry tree, Not quenched is the glowing flames, And burnt by it have been all faces from south to north. 48 And seen have all flesh, that I, Jehovah, have kindled it -- it is not quenched.'
• Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.
• Amos 9:9 : 9 For lo, I am commanding, And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As `one' doth shake with a sieve, And there falleth not a grain `to' the earth.
• Matt 13:43 : 43 `Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.
• Matt 13:49-50 : 49 so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous, 50 and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
• Mark 9:43-48 : 43 `And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable -- 44 where there worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched. 45 `And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable -- 46 where there worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched. 47 And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire -- 48 where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched;