What Does Matthew 8:17 Mean?

“That it might”

what(-ever) how, i.e., in the manner that (as adverb or conjunction of coincidence, intentional or actual)

“be fulfilled”

to make replete, i.e., (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“which was spoken”

to utter, i.e., speak or say

“by”

through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)

“Esaias”

hesaias (i.e., jeshajah), an israelite

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“the prophet”

a foreteller ("prophet"); by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet

“saying”

properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an

“Himself”

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

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“infirmities”

feebleness (of mind or body); by implication, malady; morally, frailty

“our”

of (or from) us

“took”

while g0138 is more violent, to seize or remove))

“and”

and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“our sicknesses”

a malady (rarely figuratively, of moral disability)

“bare”

to lift, literally or figuratively (endure, declare, sustain, receive, etc.)