Mark 12:1
New Testament • 20 words with Strong's data
"And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country."
Word-by-Word Analysis
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 (...
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
παραβολή
parabolḗ
a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
נָטַע
nâṭaʻ
properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
שׂוּךְ
sûwk
to entwine, i.e. shut in (for formation, protection or restraint)
סָבִיב
çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
חָפַר
châphar
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
מָקוֹם
mâqôwm
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
ὑπολήνιον
hypolḗnion
vessel or receptacle under the press, i.e. lower wine-vat
בָּנָה
bânâh
to build (literally and figuratively)
מִגְדָּל
migdâl
a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
ὑπολήνιον hypolḗnion
vessel or receptacle under the press, i.e. lower wine-vat
Study G5276 →שׂוּךְ sûwk
to entwine, i.e. shut in (for formation, protection or restraint)
Study H7753 →παραβολή parabolḗ
a similitude ("parable"), i.e. (symbolic) fictitious narrative (of common life conveying a moral), apothegm or adage
Study G3850 →חָפַר châphar
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
Study H2658 →נָטַע nâṭaʻ
properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
Study H5193 →מִגְדָּל migdâl
a tower (from its size or height); by analogy, a rostrum; figuratively, a (pyramidal) bed of flowers
Study H4026 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →Cross References
For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
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