KJV: But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
YLT: and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
Darby: but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.
ASV: But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
δὲ | however |
Parse: Conjunction Root: δέ Sense: but, moreover, and, etc. |
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ἀλλήλους | one another |
Parse: Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ἀλλήλων Sense: one another, reciprocally, mutually. |
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δάκνετε | you bite |
Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: δάκνω Sense: to bite with the teeth. |
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κατεσθίετε | devour |
Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: κατεσθίω Sense: to consume by eating, to eat up, devour. |
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βλέπετε | take heed |
Parse: Verb, Present Imperative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: βλέπω Sense: to see, discern, of the bodily eye. |
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μὴ | lest |
Parse: Adverb Root: μή Sense: no, not lest. |
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ἀλλήλων | one another |
Parse: Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: ἀλλήλων Sense: one another, reciprocally, mutually. |
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ἀναλωθῆτε | you might be consumed |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Passive, 2nd Person Plural Root: ἀναλίσκω Sense: to expend. |
Greek Commentary for Galatians 5:15
Condition of first class assumed as true. Two common and old verbs often used together of wild animals, or like cats and dogs. [source]
Negative final clause with first aorist passive subjunctive of αναλισκω analiskō old word to consume or spend. In N.T. only here and Luke 9:54. There is a famous story of two snakes that grabbed each other by the tail and each swallowed the other. [source]
Strong expressions of partisan hatred exerting itself for mutual injury. Δάκνειν tobite, N.T.oIn lxx metaphorically, Micah 3:5; Habakkuk 2:7. For κατεσθίειν devourcomp. Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. [source]
Rare in N.T. See Luke 9:54. Partisan strife will be fatal to the Christian community as a whole. The organic life of the body will be destroyed by its own members. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Galatians 5:15
d Lipsius makes this verse the beginning of ch. 6. Weizsäcker begins that chapter with Galatians 5:26. There seems to be no sufficient reason. Galatians 5:25is connected naturally with the immediately preceding line of thought. “Such being your principle of life, adapt your conduct (walk) to it.” The hortatory form of Galatians 5:26, and its contents, fall in naturally with the exhortation to walk by the Spirit, and with the reference to biting and devouring, Galatians 5:15, and envyings, Galatians 5:21. The connection of the opening of ch. 6 with the close of ch. 5 is not so manifest; and the address brethren and the change to the second person (Galatians 6:1) seem to indicate a new section. [source]
See Exodus 24:17; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3; Malachi 3:2; Malachi 4:1. The verb N.T.oa few times in lxx. Often in Class., especially Xenophon. Originally to use up, spend, lavish, as property: thence to consume as with fire. The simple verb ἀναλίσκειν toexpend occurs Luke 9:54; Galatians 5:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:8. Ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν is not our God as compared with the God of the Jews. He is the God of both covenants (see Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 1:2, and notes); but though now revealed in Jesus Christ, and offering all the privileges of the new covenant (Hebrews 12:22-24), his anger burns against those who reject these privileges. [source]