KJV: Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
YLT: Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;
Darby: Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.
ASV: let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.
| γυναῖκες | women |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Plural Root: γυνή Sense: a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow. |
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| ἐκκλησίαις | churches |
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Parse: Noun, Dative Feminine Plural Root: ἐκκλησία Sense: a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly. |
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| σιγάτωσαν | let them be silent |
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Parse: Verb, Present Imperative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: σιγάω Sense: to keep silence, hold one’s peace. |
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| ἐπιτρέπεται | it is allowed |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Middle or Passive, 3rd Person Singular Root: ἐπιτρέπω Sense: to turn to, transfer, commit, instruct. |
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| αὐταῖς | to them |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative Feminine 3rd Person Plural Root: αὐτός Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself. |
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| λαλεῖν | to speak |
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Parse: Verb, Present Infinitive Active Root: ἀπολαλέω Sense: to utter a voice or emit a sound. |
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| ὑποτασσέσθωσαν | to be in submission |
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Parse: Verb, Present Imperative Middle or Passive, 3rd Person Plural Root: ὑποτάσσω Sense: to arrange under, to subordinate. |
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| καὶ | also |
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Parse: Conjunction Root: καί Sense: and, also, even, indeed, but. |
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| νόμος | law |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: νόμος Sense: anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command. |
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| λέγει | says |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular Root: λέγω Sense: to say, to speak. |
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Greek Commentary for 1 Corinthians 14:34
The same verb used about the disorders caused by speakers in tongues (1 Corinthians 14:28) and prophets (1 Corinthians 14:30). For some reason some of the women were creating disturbance in the public worship by their dress (1 Corinthians 11:2-16) and now by their speech. There is no doubt at all as to Paul‘s meaning here. In church the women are not allowed to speak He calls it a shame Certainly women are still in subjection But somehow modern Christians have concluded that Paul‘s commands on this subject, even 1 Timothy 2:12, were meant for specific conditions that do not apply wholly now. Women do most of the teaching in our Sunday schools today. It is not easy to draw the line. The daughters of Philip were prophetesses. It seems clear that we need to be patient with each other as we try to understand Paul‘s real meaning here. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 1 Corinthians 14:34
Not necessarily an “order” of virgins, but Philip had the honour of having in his home four virgin daughters with the gift of prophecy which was not necessarily predicting events, though that was done as by Agabus here. It was more than ordinary preaching (cf. Acts 19:6) and was put by Paul above the other gifts like tongues (1 Corinthians 14:1-33). The prophecy of Joel (Joel 2:28.) about their sons and daughters prophesying is quoted by Peter and applied to the events on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:17). Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:5 gives directions about praying and prophesying by the women (apparently in public worship) with the head uncovered and sharply requires the head covering, though not forbidding the praying and prophesying. With this must be compared his demand for silence by the women in 1 Corinthians 14:34-40; 1 Timothy 2:8-15 which it is not easy to reconcile. One wonders if there was not something known to Paul about special conditions in Corinth and Ephesus that he has not told. There was also Anna the prophetess in the temple (Luke 2:36) besides the inspired hymns of Elizabeth (Luke 1:42-45) and of Mary (Luke 1:46-55). At any rate there was no order of women prophets or official ministers. There were Old Testament prophetesses like Miriam, Deborah, Huldah. Today in our Sunday schools the women do most of the actual teaching. The whole problem is difficult and calls for restraint and reverence. One thing is certain and that is that Luke appreciated the services of women for Christ as is shown often in his writings (Luke 8:1-3, for instance) before this incident. [source]
Lit. turn over to; thence, permit. See 1 Corinthians 14:34. [source]
See on peaceable, 1 Timothy 2:2. Rev. renders quietness; but the admonition concerns the behavior of women in religious assemblies. Comp. 1 Corinthians 14:34. The word is used in the sense of silence, Acts 22:2: with the broader meaning quietness in 2 Thessalonians 3:12. [source]
Better, subject or in subjection. Frequent in Paul, but not often in the active voice. See on James 4:7; see on Romans 8:7; see on Philemon 3:21; and comp. 1 Corinthians 14:34; Ephesians 5:22; Colossians 3:18. [source]