Luke 15:24
New Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
אָבַד
ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
מָצָא
mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
טוֹב
ṭôwb
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good...
Key Terms in This Verse
טוֹב ṭôwb
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goo...
Study H2896 →אָבַד ʼâbad
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
Study H6 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →חָלַל châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Study H2490 →מָצָא mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
Study H4672 →בֵּן bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Study H1121 →Cross References
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong;...
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither hav...
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go...
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,...
And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
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