Greek Interlinear
Luke 8:16 Interlinear
“No man a candle when he hath lighted covereth it with a vessel or it under a bed putteth but it on a candlestick setteth that they which enter in may see the light”
Word-by-Word Analysis
| # | Original | Strong's | English | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Οὐδεὶς | G3762 | No man | not even one (man, woman or thing), i.e., none, nobody, nothing |
| 2 | δὲ | G1161 | but, and, etc | |
| 3 | λύχνον | G3088 | a candle | a portable lamp or other illuminator (literally or figuratively) |
| 4 | ἅψας | G681 | when he hath lighted | properly, to fasten to, i.e., (specially) to set on fire |
| 5 | καλύπτει | G2572 | covereth | to cover up (literally or figuratively) |
| 6 | αὐτὸν | G846 | it | the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
| 7 | σκεύει | G4632 | with a vessel | a vessel, implement, equipment or apparatus (literally or figuratively (specially, a wife as contributing to the usefulness of the husband)) |
| 8 | ἢ | G2228 | or | disjunctive, or; comparative, than |
| 9 | ὑποκάτω | G5270 | it under | down under, i.e., beneath |
| 10 | κλίνης | G2825 | a bed | a couch (for sleep, sickness, sitting or eating) |
| 11 | τίθησιν | G5087 | putteth | to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from g2476, which pr |
| 12 | ἀλλ' | G235 | but | properly, other things, i.e., (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations) |
| 13 | ἐπὶ | G1909 | it on | properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e., over, upon, etc.; of re |
| 14 | λυχνίας | G3087 | a candlestick | a lamp-stand (literally or figuratively) |
| 15 | ἐπιτίθησιν, | G2007 | setteth | to impose (in a friendly or hostile sense) |
| 16 | ἵνα | G2443 | that | in order that (denoting the purpose or the result) |
| 17 | οἱ | G3588 | the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom) | |
| 18 | εἰσπορευόμενοι | G1531 | they which enter in | to enter (literally or figuratively) |
| 19 | βλέπωσιν | G991 | may see | to look at (literally or figuratively) |
| 20 | τὸ | G3588 | the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom) | |
| 21 | φῶς | G5457 | the light | luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative) |
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