Luke 15:17
New Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!"
Word-by-Word Analysis
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...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
דַּי
day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
חוּס
chûwç
properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
אָבַד
ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Key Terms in This Verse
דַּי day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
Study H1767 →אָבַד ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Study H6 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →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
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: ...
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, a...
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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