Matthew 5:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι: ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

Transliteration

Makarioi the ptōchoi in the pneumati: hoti of-them estin the basileia of-the ouranōn.

Grammar Details

• *Makarioi*: nominative masculine plural adjective - blessed/happy
• *ptōchoi*: nominative masculine plural - poor/destitute
• *pneumati*: dative neuter singular - in spirit
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *basileia*: nominative feminine singular - kingdom/reign
• *ouranōn*: genitive masculine plural - of heavens

Word Meanings

• *Makarioi*: blessed/happy/fortunate
• *ptōchoi*: poor/destitute/beggarly
• *pneumati*: spirit/breath/wind
• *basileia*: kingdom/reign/rule
• *ouranōn*: heavens/skies

Referenced Verses

• Isa 66:2 : 2 And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.
• Prov 29:23 : 23 The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.
• 2 Chr 7:14 : 14 and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I -- I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
• Ps 34:18 : 18 Near `is' Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.
• Ps 51:17 : 17 The sacrifices of God `are' a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah `is' on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
• Prov 16:19 : 19 Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.
• Matt 18:1-3 : 1 At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' 2 And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them, 3 and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;
• 2 Chr 34:27 : 27 Because thy heart `is' tender, and thou art humbled before God in thy hearing His words concerning this place, and concerning its inhabitants, and art humbled before Me, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me: even I also have heard -- the affirmation of Jehovah.
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
• Matt 5:3-9 : 3 `Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens. 4 `Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted. 5 `Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land. 6 `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled. 7 `Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness. 8 `Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God. 9 `Happy the peacemakers -- because they shall be called Sons of God. 10 `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens. 11 `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake -- 12 rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward `is' great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
• Luke 6:20-26 : 20 And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God. 21 `Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh. 22 `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake -- 23 rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward `is' great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets. 24 `But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort. 25 `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep. 26 `Wo to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.
• Jas 2:5 : 5 Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?
• Lev 26:41-42 : 41 also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies -- or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, -- 42 then I have remembered My covenant `with' Jacob, and also My covenant `with' Isaac, and also My covenant `with' Abraham I remember, and the land I remember.
• Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.
• Ps 1:1 : 1 O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;
• Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!
• Ps 32:1-2 : 1 By David. -- An Instruction. O the happiness of him whose transgression `is' forgiven, Whose sin is covered. 2 O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Ps 41:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.
• Ps 119:1-2 : 1 `Aleph.' O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, 2 O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.
• Ps 84:12 : 12 Jehovah of Hosts! O the happiness of a man trusting in Thee.
• Deut 8:2 : 2 and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which `is' in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.
• Job 42:6 : 6 Therefore do I loathe `it', And I have repented on dust and ashes.
• 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
• 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.
• 2 Chr 33:23 : 23 and hath not been humbled before Jehovah, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself hath multiplied guilt.
• Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment `is' Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
• Ps 146:5 : 5 O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope `is' on Jehovah his God,
• Prov 8:32 : 32 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.
• Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.
• Rev 22:14 : 14 `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
• Mark 10:14 : 14 and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;
• Rom 4:6-9 : 6 even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: 7 `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered; 8 happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.' 9 `Is' this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?
• Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;
• Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.
• John 20:29 : 29 Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'
• Luke 4:18 : 18 `The Spirit of the Lord `is' upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
• Luke 11:28 : 28 And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping `it'!'
• Jas 4:9-9 : 9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; 10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
• Rev 19:9 : 9 And he saith to me, `Write: Happy `are' they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These `are' the true words of God;'
• Matt 13:16 : 16 `And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,
• Matt 24:46 : 46 Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;
• Matt 25:34 : 34 `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Matt 8:11 : 11 and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens,
• Matt 11:6 : 6 and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'
• Matt 3:2 : 2 and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'
• Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God. 19 For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth. 20 A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.
• Ps 128:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.
• Dan 5:21-22 : 21 and from the sons of men he is driven, and his heart with the beasts hath been like, and with the wild asses `is' his dwelling; the herb like oxen they cause him to eat, and by the dew of the heavens is his body wet, till that he hath known that God Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and whom He willeth He raiseth up over it. 22 `And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known;