Romans 12:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Χαίρειν μετὰ χαιρόντων, καὶ κλαίειν μετὰ κλαιόντων.

Transliteration

To chairein with chairontōn, and to klaiein with klaiontōn.

Grammar Details

• *chairein*: present active infinitive - to rejoice
• *chairontōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - with rejoicing ones
• *klaiein*: present active infinitive - to weep
• *klaiontōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - with weeping ones

Word Meanings

• *chairein*: rejoice/be glad/delight
• *chairontōn*: rejoicing/being glad/delighting
• *klaiein*: weep/cry/lament
• *klaiontōn*: weeping/crying/lamenting

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members;
• Heb 13:3 : 3 be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;
• Phil 2:17-18 : 17 but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all, 18 because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.
• Job 30:25 : 25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
• Ps 35:13-14 : 13 And I -- in their sickness my clothing `is' sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth. 14 As `if' a friend, as `if' my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.
• Neh 1:4 : 4 And it cometh to pass, at my hearing these words, I have sat down, and I weep and mourn `for' days, and I am fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.
• Jer 9:1 : 1 Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
• Luke 1:58 : 58 and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.
• 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;
• John 11:33-36 : 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, 34 `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;' 35 Jesus wept. 36 The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'
• Acts 11:23 : 23 who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,
• 2 Cor 2:3 : 3 and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,
• Phil 2:26 : 26 seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,
• Phil 2:28 : 28 The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;
• Luke 15:5-9 : 5 and having found, he doth lay `it' on his shoulders rejoicing, 6 and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one. 7 `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation. 8 `Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find? 9 and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost. 10 `So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'
• John 11:19 : 19 and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
• Job 2:11 : 11 And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;
• Isa 66:10-14 : 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, And be glad in her, all ye loving her, Rejoice ye with her for joy, All ye are mourning for her, 11 So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted yourselves From the abundance of her honour. 12 For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so do I comfort you, Yea, in Jerusalem ye are comforted. 14 And ye have seen, and rejoiced hath your heart, And your bones as tender grass do flourish, And the hand of Jehovah hath been known unto His servants, And He hath been indignant with His enemies.