KJV: Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
YLT: they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.
Darby: They gathered them therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.
ASV: So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten.
| συνήγαγον | They gathered together |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: συνάγω Sense: to gather together, to gather. |
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| ἐγέμισαν | filled |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: γεμίζω Sense: to fill, fill full. |
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| δώδεκα | twelve |
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Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: δώδεκα Sense: twelve. |
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| κοφίνους | hand-baskets |
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Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: κόφινος Sense: a basket, wicker basket. |
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| κλασμάτων | of fragments |
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Parse: Noun, Genitive Neuter Plural Root: κλάσμα Sense: a fragment, broken piece. |
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| πέντε | five |
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Parse: Adjective, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: πέντε Sense: five. |
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| ἄρτων | loaves |
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Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: ἄρτος Sense: food composed of flour mixed with water and baked. |
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| τῶν | - |
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Parse: Article, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| κριθίνων | barley |
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Parse: Adjective, Genitive Masculine Plural Root: κρίθινος Sense: of barley, made of barley. |
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| ἐπερίσσευσαν | were over and above |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: περισσεύω Sense: to exceed a fixed number of measure, to be left over and above a certain number or measure. |
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| τοῖς | to those |
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Parse: Article, Dative Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| βεβρωκόσιν | having eaten |
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Parse: Verb, Perfect Participle Active, Dative Masculine Plural Root: βιβρώσκω Sense: to eat. |
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Greek Commentary for John 6:13
One for each of the apostles. What about the lad? Stout wicker baskets (coffins, Wycliff) in distinction from the soft and frail σπυριδες sphurides used at the feeding of the four thousand (Mark 8:8; Matthew 15:37). Here all the Gospels (Mark 6:43; Matthew 14:20; Luke 9:17; John 6:13) use κοπινοι kophinoi The same distinction between κοπινοι kophinoi and σπυριδες sphurides is preserved in the allusion to the incidents by Jesus in Mark 8:19, Mark 8:20; Matthew 16:9, Matthew 16:10. Unto them that had eaten Articular perfect active participle (dative case) of βιβρωσκω bibrōskō old verb to eat, only here in N.T., though often in lxx. [source]
See on Matthew 14:20. Wyc., coffins. [source]
John goes into fuller detail than the Synoptists. Mark alone notes the gathering of the remains of the fishes. John also uses ἐγέμισαν , filled, for they took up, or were taken up, of the Synoptists. [source]
A detail peculiar to John, emphasizing the identity of the fragments with the original loaves. [source]
Only here in the New Testament. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for John 6:13
A detail peculiar to John. The word occurs in the New Testament only here and John 6:13. An inferior sort of bread is indicated by the term. Pliny and some of the Jewish writers describe barley as food fit for beasts. Suetonius speaks of a turgid rhetorician as a barley orator, inflated like barley in moisture: and Livy relates how cohorts which had lost their standards were ordered barley for food. [source]
Old word, diminutive of παις pais here only in N.T., not genuine in Matthew 11:16. How he came to have this small supply we do not know. Barley Adjective, here and John 6:13 only in N.T., in the papyri, from κριτη krithē barley (Revelation 6:6). Considered an inferior sort of bread. Fishes Late diminutive of οπσον opson common in papyri and inscriptions for delicacies with bread like fish. In N.T. only here, John 6:11; John 21:9-13. Synoptics have ιχτυας ichthuas f0). [source]
One for each of the apostles. What about the lad? Stout wicker baskets (coffins, Wycliff) in distinction from the soft and frail σπυριδες sphurides used at the feeding of the four thousand (Mark 8:8; Matthew 15:37). Here all the Gospels (Mark 6:43; Matthew 14:20; Luke 9:17; John 6:13) use κοπινοι kophinoi The same distinction between κοπινοι kophinoi and σπυριδες sphurides is preserved in the allusion to the incidents by Jesus in Mark 8:19, Mark 8:20; Matthew 16:9, Matthew 16:10. Unto them that had eaten Articular perfect active participle (dative case) of βιβρωσκω bibrōskō old verb to eat, only here in N.T., though often in lxx. [source]
Second perfect active indicative of σηπω sēpō (root σαπ sap as in σαπρος sapros rotten), to corrupt, to destroy, here intransitive “has rotted.” Only here in N.T. On the worthlessness of mere wealth see Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:24.Were moth-eaten (σητοβρωτα γεγονεν sētobrōta gegonen). “Have become (second perfect indicative of γινομαι ginomai singular number, though ιματια himatia neuter plural, treated collectively) moth-eaten” (σητοβρωτα sētobrōta late and rare compound from σης sēs moth, Matthew 6:19. and βρωτος brōtos verbal adjective of βιβρωσκω bibrōskō to eat John 6:13. This compound found only here, Job 13:28, Sibyll. Orac. Proem. 64). Rich robes as heirlooms, but moth-eaten. Vivid picture. Witness the 250 “lost millionaires” in the United States in 1931 as compared with 1929. Riches have wings. [source]
The preposition ἐκ outof occurs one hundred and twenty-seven times in Revelation, and its proper signification is almost universally out of; but this rendering in many of the passages would be so strange and unidiomatic, that the New Testament Revisers have felt themselves able to adopt it only forty-one times out of all that number, and employ of, from, by, with, on, at, because of, by reason of, from among. See, for instance, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:21, Revelation 2:22; Revelation 6:4, Revelation 6:10; Revelation 8:11; Revelation 9:18; Revelation 14:13; Revelation 15:2; Revelation 16:21. Compare John 3:31; John 4:13, John 6:13, John 6:39, John 6:51; John 8:23, John 8:44; John 9:6; John 11:1; John 12:3, John 12:27, John 12:32; John 17:5. Tree, lit., wood. See on Luke 23:31; see on 1 Peter 2:24. Dean Plumptre notes the fact that, prominent as this symbol had been in the primeval history, it had remained unnoticed in the teaching where we should most have looked for its presence - in that of the Psalmist and Prophets of the Old Testament. Only in the Proverbs of Solomon had it been used, in a sense half allegorical and half mystical (Proverbs 3:18; Proverbs 13:12; Proverbs 11:30; Proverbs 15:4). The revival of the symbol in Revelation is in accordance with the theme of the restitution of all things. “The tree which disappeared with the disappearance of the earthly Paradise, reappears with the reappearance of the heavenly.” To eat of the tree of life expresses participation in the life eternal. The figure of the tree of life appears in all mythologies from India to Scandinavia. The Rabbins and Mohammedans called the vine the probation tree. The Zend Avesta has its tree of life called the Death-Destroyer. It grows by the waters of life, and the drinking of its sap confers immortality. The Hindu tree of life is pictured as growing out of a great seed in the midst of an expanse of water. It has three branches, each crowned with a sun, denoting the three powers of creation, preservation, and renovation after destruction. In another representation Budha sits in meditation under a tree with three branches, each branch having three stems. One of the Babylonian cylinders discovered by Layard, represents three priestesses gathering the fruit of what seems to be a palm-tree with three branches on each side. Athor, the Venus of the Egyptians, appears half-concealed in the branches of the sacred peach-tree, giving to the departed soul the fruit, and the drink of heaven from a vial from which the streams of life descend upon the spirit, a figure at the foot of the tree, like a hawk, with a human head and with hands outstretched. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- In the Norse mythology a prominent figure is Igdrasil, the Ash-tree of Existence; its roots in the kingdom of Eels or Death, its trunk reaching to heaven, and its boughs spread over the whole universe. At its foot, in the kingdom of Death, sit three Nornas or Fates, the Past, the Present, and the Future, watering its roots from the sacred well. Compare Revelation 22:2, Revelation 22:14, Revelation 22:19. Virgil, addressing Dante at the completion of the ascent of the Purgatorial Mount, says:“That apple sweet, which through so many branchesThe care of mortals goeth in pursuit of, Today shall put in peace thy hungerings.”“Purgatorio,” xxvii., 115-117. ParadiseSee on Luke 23:43. Omit in the midst of. Παράδεισος Paradise“passes through a series of meanings, each one higher than the last. From any garden of delight, which is its first meaning, it comes to be predominantly applied to the garden of Eden, then to the resting-place of separate souls in joy and felicity, and lastly to the very heaven itself; and we see eminently in it, what we see indeed in so many words, how revealed religion assumes them into her service, and makes them vehicles of far higher truth than any which they knew at first, transforming and transfiguring them, as in this case, from glory to glory” (Trench). [source]