John 8:53
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
אַבְרָהָם
ʼAbrâhâm
Abraham, the later name of Abram
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
נָבִיא
nâbîyʼ
a prophet or (generally) inspired man
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
Key Terms in This Verse
שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →Cross References
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prin...
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
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