2 Peter 1:8
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
לֹא
lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
עָקָר
ʻâqâr
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
ἄκαρπος
ákarpos
barren (literally or figuratively)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
Ἰησοῦς
Iēsoûs
Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites
Χριστός
Christós
anointed, i.e. the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus
Key Terms in This Verse
לֹא lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
Study H3808 →Ἰησοῦς Iēsoûs
Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites
Study G2424 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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