Galatians 4:17
New Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עָלַל
ʻâlal
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose ...
יָטַב
yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
גָּזַר
gâzar
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
עָלַל
ʻâlal
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose ...
Key Terms in This Verse
גָּזַר gâzar
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
Study H1504 →עָלַל ʻâlal
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
Study H5953 →עָלַל ʻâlal
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
Study H5953 →יָטַב yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
Study H3190 →Cross References
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
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.
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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