Romans 9:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ τῷ Φαραὼ, Ὅτι Εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐξήγειρά σε, ὅπως ἐνδείξωμαι ἐν σοὶ τὴν δύναμίν μου, καὶ ὅπως διαγγελῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.

Transliteration

For legei the graphē to Pharaō, That For auto touto exēgeira you, hopōs endeixōmai in you the dynamin of me, and hopōs diangelē the onoma of me in pasē the gē.

Grammar Details

• *legei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - says
• *graphē*: nominative, feminine, singular - scripture
• *Pharaō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Pharaoh
• *auto touto*: accusative, neuter, singular - this very thing/for this very purpose
• *exēgeira*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I raised up
• *hopōs*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *endeixōmai*: aorist, subjunctive, middle, 1st person singular - I might display
• *dynamin*: accusative, feminine, singular - power
• *diangelē*: aorist, subjunctive, passive, 3rd person singular - might be proclaimed
• *onoma*: nominative, neuter, singular - name
• *pasē*: adjective, dative, feminine, singular - all
• *gē*: dative, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *graphē*: scripture/writing
• *exēgeira*: I raised up/I brought you to this position
• *endeixōmai*: I might display/show/demonstrate
• *dynamin*: power/might/strength
• *diangelē*: might be proclaimed/announced/declared
• *onoma*: name/reputation/character
• *pasē*: all/whole/entire
• *gē*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:16 : 16 `And yet for this I have caused thee to stand, so as to show thee My power, and for the sake of declaring My Name in all the earth;
• Prov 16:4 : 4 All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked `worketh' for a day of evil.
• John 17:26 : 26 and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'
• Rom 11:4 : 4 but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'
• Gal 3:8 : 8 and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --
• Gal 3:22 : 22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
• Gal 4:30 : 30 but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'
• Isa 10:5-6 : 5 Wo `to' Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand `is' Mine indignation. 6 Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.
• Isa 37:20 : 20 And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou `art' Jehovah, Thyself alone.'
• Isa 45:1-3 : 1 Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut: 2 `I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder, 3 And have given to thee treasures of darkness, Even treasures of secret places, So that thou knowest that I, Jehovah, Who am calling on thy name -- `am' the God of Israel.
• Jer 27:6-7 : 6 `And now, I -- I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and also the beast of the field I have given to him to serve him; 7 And served him have all the nations, and his son, and his son's son, till the coming in of the time of his land, also it; and done service for him have many nations and great kings.
• Dan 4:22 : 22 `Thou it `is', O king, for thou hast become great and mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth;
• Dan 5:18-21 : 18 thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father: 19 and because of the greatness that He gave to him, all peoples, nations, and languages were trembling and fearing before him: whom he willed he was slaying, and whom he willed he was keeping alive, and whom he willed he was raising up, and whom he willed he was making low; 20 and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him, 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.
• Exod 10:1-2 : 1 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go in unto Pharaoh, for I have declared hard his heart, and the heart of his servants, so that I set these My signs in their midst, 2 and so that thou recountest in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, that which I have done in Egypt, and My signs which I have set among them, and ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.'
• Exod 14:17-18 : 17 `And I -- lo, I am strengthening the heart of the Egyptians, and they go in after them, and I am honoured on Pharaoh, and on all his force, on his chariots, and on his horsemen; 18 and the Egyptians have known that I `am' Jehovah, in My being honoured on Pharaoh, on his chariots, and on his horsemen.'
• Exod 15:14-15 : 14 Peoples have heard, they are troubled; Pain hath seized inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then have chiefs of Edom been troubled: Mighty ones of Moab -- Trembling doth seize them! Melted have all inhabitants of Canaan!
• Exod 18:10-11 : 10 and Jethro saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, who hath delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of Pharaoh -- who hath delivered this people from under the hand of the Egyptians; 11 now I have known that Jehovah `is' greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly -- `He is' above them!'
• Josh 2:9-9 : 9 and she saith unto the men, `I have known that Jehovah hath given to you the land, and that your terror hath fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted at your presence. 10 `For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the waters of the Red Sea at your presence, in your going out of Egypt, and that which ye have done to the two kings of the Amorite who `are' beyond the Jordan; to Sihon and to Og whom ye devoted.
• Josh 9:9 : 9 And they say unto him, `From a land very far off have thy servants come, for the name of Jehovah thy God, for we have heard His fame, and all that He hath done in Egypt,
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high. 8 He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause `them' to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah `are' the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.
• 1 Sam 4:8 : 8 Wo to us, who doth deliver us out of the hand of these honourable gods? these `are' the gods who are smiting the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.
• Esth 4:14 : 14 but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'
• Ps 83:17-18 : 17 They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost. 18 And they know that Thou -- (Thy name `is' Jehovah -- by Thyself,) `Art' the Most High over all the earth!