Revelation 3:17
New Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
עָשִׁיר
ʻâshîyr
rich, whether literal or figurative (noble)
חָסֵר
châçêr
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
אֹבֵד
ʼôbêd
(concrete) wretched or (abstract) destruction
עָמָל
ʻâmâl
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
עִוֵּר
ʻivvêr
blind (literally or figuratively)
עָרוֹם
ʻârôwm
nude, either partially or totally
Key Terms in This Verse
עָמָל ʻâmâl
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
Study H5999 →יָדַע yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...
Study H3045 →Cross References
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man t...
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be c...
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant?
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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