Matthew 7:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πᾶς γὰρ ὁ αἰτῶν λαμβάνει· καὶ ὁ ζητῶν εὑρίσκει· καὶ τῷ κρούοντι ἀνοιγήσεται.

Transliteration

Every gar the aitōn lambanei; and the zētōn heuriskei; and to the krouonti anoigēsetai.

Grammar Details

• *Pas*: nominative singular masculine - all/every/each
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *ho aitōn*: nominative singular masculine present active participle - the one asking
• *lambanei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - receives/takes
• *ho zētōn*: nominative singular masculine present active participle - the one seeking
• *heuriskei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - finds
• *tō krouonti*: dative singular masculine present active participle - to the one knocking
• *anoigēsetai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - it will be opened

Word Meanings

• *aitōn*: asking/requesting/begging
• *lambanei*: receives/takes/obtains
• *zētōn*: seeking/searching for/striving for
• *heuriskei*: finds/discovers/obtains
• *krouonti*: knocking/beating/striking

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• Ps 81:10 : 10 I `am' Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
• Ps 81:16 : 16 He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And `with' honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
• Matt 15:22-28 : 22 and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, `Deal kindly with me, Sir -- Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.' 23 And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying -- `Let her away, because she crieth after us;' 24 and he answering said, `I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.' 25 And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, `Sir, help me;' 26 and he answering said, `It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.' 27 And she said, `Yes, sir, for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;' 28 then answering, Jesus said to her, `O woman, great `is' thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;' and her daughter was healed from that hour.
• Luke 23:42-43 : 42 and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;' 43 and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
• John 2:2 : 2 and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;
• John 3:8-9 : 8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.' 9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?' 10 Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!
• Acts 9:11 : 11 and the Lord `saith' unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, `one' by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,
• 2 Chr 33:1-2 : 1 A son of twelve years is Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem; 2 and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,