Titus 2:3
New Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
טַעַם
ṭaʻam
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
נָאָה
nâʼâh
properly, to be at home, i.e. (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e. beautiful
קֹדֶשׁ
qôdesh
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
κατήγορος
katḗgoros
against one in the assembly, i.e. a complainant at law; specially, Satan
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
יַיִן
yayin
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
διδάσκαλος
didáskalos
an instructor (genitive case or specially)
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...
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Key Terms in This Verse
טַעַם ṭaʻam
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
Study H2940 →κατήγορος katḗgoros
against one in the assembly, i.e. a complainant at law; specially, Satan
Study G2725 →נָאָה nâʼâh
properly, to be at home, i.e. (by implication) to be pleasant (or suitable), i.e. beautiful
Study H4998 →Cross References
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th...
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong me...
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