2 Corinthians 12:20
New Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָרֵא
yârêʼ
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
בִּלְתִּי
biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
מָצָא
mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
מָצָא
mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
בִּלְתִּי
biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...
English grammatical function word ('envyings'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalen...
דִּין
dîyn
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
סֵתֶר
çêther
a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
ψιθυρισμός
psithyrismós
by implication, a slander; probably akin to G5574 (ψεύδομαι)); whispering, i.e. secret detraction
גַּאֲוָה
gaʼăvâh
arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament
Key Terms in This Verse
סֵתֶר çêther
a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
Study H5643 →ψιθυρισμός psithyrismós
by implication, a slander; probably akin to G5574 (ψεύδομαι)); whispering, i.e. secret detraction
Study G5587 →גַּאֲוָה gaʼăvâh
arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament
Study H1346 →English grammatical function word ('envyings'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are r...
Study GRAM →דִּין dîyn
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
Study H1779 →מָצָא mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
Study H4672 →בִּלְתִּי biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.
Study H1115 →Cross References
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which ...
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare...
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