Luke 11:52
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered."
Word-by-Word Analysis
νομικός
nomikós
according (or pertaining) to law, i.e. legal (ceremonially); as noun, an expert in the (Mosaic) law
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
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...
פֶּתַח
pethach
an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
ἐγκόπτω
enkóptō
to cut into, i.e. (figuratively) impede, detain
Key Terms in This Verse
νομικός nomikós
according (or pertaining) to law, i.e. legal (ceremonially); as noun, an expert in the (Mosaic) law
Study G3544 →פֶּתַח pethach
an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
Study H6607 →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 →Cross References
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
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