Greek Interlinear
1 Corinthians 14:19 Interlinear
“Yet in the church I had rather five words with understanding my speak that also others by my voice I might teach than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue”
Word-by-Word Analysis
| # | Original | Strong's | English | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ἀλλ' | G235 | Yet | properly, other things, i.e., (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations) |
| 2 | ἐν | G1722 | in | "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc |
| 3 | ἐκκλησίᾳ | G1577 | the church | a calling out, i.e., (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (jewish synagogue, or christian community of members on earth |
| 4 | θέλω | G2309 | I had rather | to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas g1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), |
| 5 | πέντε | G4002 | five | "five" |
| 6 | λόγους | G3056 | words | something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a |
| 7 | διὰ | G1223 | with | through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional) |
| 8 | τοῦ | G3588 | the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom) | |
| 9 | νοός | G3563 | understanding | the intellect, i.e., mind (divine or human; in thought, feeling, or will); by implication, meaning |
| 10 | μου | G3450 | my | of me |
| 11 | λαλῆσαι | G2980 | speak | to talk, i.e., utter words |
| 12 | ἵνα | G2443 | that | in order that (denoting the purpose or the result) |
| 13 | καὶ | G2532 | also | and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words |
| 14 | ἄλλους | G243 | others | "else," i.e., different (in many applications) |
| 15 | κατηχήσω | G2727 | by my voice I might teach | to sound down into the ears, i.e., (by implication) to indoctrinate ("catechize") or (genitive case) to apprise of |
| 16 | ἢ | G2228 | than | disjunctive, or; comparative, than |
| 17 | μυρίους | G3463 | ten thousand | ten thousand; by extension, innumerably many |
| 18 | λόγους | G3056 | words | something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a |
| 19 | ἐν | G1722 | in | "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc |
| 20 | γλώσσῃ | G1100 | an unknown tongue | the tongue; by implication, a language (specially, one naturally unacquired) |
Verse Context
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1 Corinthians 14:19 (current)Yet in the church I had rather five words with understanding my speak that also others by my voice I might teach than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren not children be in understanding...