Matthew 9:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and lo, a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, having come to him behind, did touch the fringe of his garments,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ, ἰδού, γυνὴ, αἱμορροοῦσα δώδεκα ἔτη, προσελθοῦσα ὄπισθεν, ἥψατο τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ:

Transliteration

And, idou, a gynē, haimorroousa twelve etē, having proselthusa opisthen, hēpsato of the kraspedou of the himatiou of him:

Grammar Details

• *idou*: aorist imperative - behold/look
• *gynē*: nominative, feminine, singular - woman
• *haimorroousa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having a flow of blood
• *etē*: accusative, neuter, plural - years
• *proselthusa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having approached
• *opisthen*: adverb - behind
• *hēpsato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - touched
• *kraspedou*: genitive, neuter, singular - edge/fringe/tassel
• *himatiou*: genitive, neuter, singular - garment/cloak

Word Meanings

• *idou*: behold/look/see
• *gynē*: woman/wife
• *haimorroousa*: having a flow of blood/bleeding
• *proselthusa*: having approached/having come to
• *opisthen*: behind/from behind
• *hēpsato*: touched/took hold of
• *kraspedou*: edge/fringe/tassel/hem
• *himatiou*: garment/cloak/robe

Referenced Verses

• Matt 14:36 : 36 and were calling on him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment, and as many as did touch were saved.
• Matt 23:5 : 5 `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
• Mark 5:25-43 : 25 and a certain woman, having an issue of blood twelve years, 26 and many things having suffered under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having profited nothing, but rather having come to the worse, 27 having heard about Jesus, having come in the multitude behind, she touched his garment, 28 for she said -- `If even his garments I may touch, I shall be saved;' 29 and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague. 30 And immediately Jesus having known in himself that out of him power had gone forth, having turned about in the multitude, said, `Who did touch my garments?' 31 and his disciples said to him, `Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and thou sayest, `Who did touch me!' 32 And he was looking round to see her who did this, 33 and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth, 34 and he said to her, `Daughter, thy faith hath saved thee; go away in peace, and be whole from thy plague.' 35 As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's `house, certain', saying -- `Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?' 36 And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, `Be not afraid, only believe.' 37 And he did not suffer any one to follow with him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James; 38 and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing; 39 and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep; 40 and they were laughing at him. And he, having put all forth, doth take the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goeth in where the child is lying, 41 and, having taken the hand of the child, he saith to her, `Talitha cumi;' which is, being interpreted, `Damsel (I say to thee), arise.' 42 And immediately the damsel arose, and was walking, for she was twelve years `old'; and they were amazed with a great amazement, 43 and he charged them much, that no one may know this thing, and he said that there be given to her to eat.
• Luke 8:43-56 : 43 and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any, 44 having come near behind, touched the fringe of his garment, and presently the issue of her blood stood. 45 And Jesus said, `Who `is' it that touched me?' and all denying, Peter and those with him said, `Master, the multitudes press thee, and throng `thee', and thou dost say, Who `is' it that touched me!' 46 And Jesus said, `Some one did touch me, for I knew power having gone forth from me.' 47 And the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently; 48 and he said to her, `Take courage, daughter, thy faith hath saved thee, be going on to peace.' 49 While he is yet speaking, there doth come a certain one from the chief of the synagogue's `house', saying to him -- `Thy daughter hath died, harass not the Teacher;' 50 and Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, `Be not afraid, only believe, and she shall be saved.' 51 And having come to the house, he suffered no one to go in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father of the child, and the mother; 52 and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, `Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep; 53 and they were deriding him, knowing that she did die; 54 and he having put all forth without, and having taken hold of her hand, called, saying, `Child, arise;' 55 and her spirit came back, and she arose presently, and he directed that there be given to her to eat; 56 and her parents were amazed, but he charged them to say to no one what was come to pass.
• Deut 22:12 : 12 `Fringes thou dost make to thee on the four skirts of thy covering with which thou dost cover `thyself'.
• Acts 19:12 : 12 so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.
• Num 15:38-39 : 38 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, and they have made for themselves fringes on the skirts of their garments, to their generations, and they have put on the fringe of the skirt a ribbon of blue, 39 and it hath been to you for a fringe, and ye have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and have done them, and ye search not after your heart, and after your eyes, after which ye are going a-whoring;
• Mark 6:56 : 56 and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.
• Mark 8:22 : 22 And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him,
• Lev 15:25-33 : 25 `And when a woman's issue of blood floweth many days within the time of her separation, or when it floweth over her separation -- all the days of the issue of her uncleanness are as the days of her separation; she `is' unclean. 26 `All the bed on which she lieth all the days of her issue is as the bed of her separation to her, and all the vessel on which she sitteth is unclean as the uncleanness of her separation; 27 and any one who is coming against them is unclean, and hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening. 28 `And if she hath been clean from her issue, then she hath numbered to herself seven days, and afterwards she is clean; 29 and on the eighth day she taketh to herself two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and hath brought them in unto the priest, unto the opening of the tent of meeting; 30 and the priest hath made the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt-offering, and the priest hath made atonement for her before Jehovah, because of the issue of her uncleanness. 31 `And ye have separated the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they die not in their uncleanness, in their defiling My tabernacle which `is' in their midst. 32 `This `is' the law of him who hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth out from him, for uncleanness thereby, 33 and of her who is sick in her separation, and of him who hath an issue, the issue of a male or of a female, and of a man who lieth with an unclean woman.'
• Acts 5:15 : 15 so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay `them' upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even `his' shadow might overshadow some one of them;