KJV: Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
YLT: be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.
Darby: go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
ASV: Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.
πορεύεσθε | Go |
Parse: Verb, Present Imperative Middle or Passive, 2nd Person Plural Root: πορεύομαι Sense: to lead over, carry over, transfer. |
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ἐπὶ | into |
Parse: Preposition Root: ἐπί Sense: upon, on, at, by, before. |
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διεξόδους | thoroughfares |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Plural Root: διέξοδος Sense: a way out through, outlet, exit. |
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τῶν | of the |
Parse: Article, Genitive Feminine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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ὁδῶν | highways |
Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Plural Root: ὁδός Sense: properly. |
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ὅσους | as many as |
Parse: Personal / Relative Pronoun, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ὅσος Sense: as great as, as far as, how much, how many, whoever. |
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εὕρητε | you shall find |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: εὑρίσκω Sense: to come upon, hit upon, to meet with. |
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καλέσατε | invite |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Imperative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: καλέω Sense: to call. |
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γάμους | wedding feast |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: γάμος Sense: a wedding or marriage festival, a wedding banquet, a wedding feast. |
Greek Commentary for Matthew 22:9
Vulgate, exitus viarum. Διοδοι Diodoi are cross-streets, while διεχοδοι diexodoi (double compound) seem to be main streets leading out of the city where also side-streets may branch off, “by-ways.” [source]
Literally, the word means a way out through; passage, outlet, thoroughfare. The idea of crossings grows out of the junction of the smaller cross-ways with the trunk roads. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Matthew 22:9
The plural, as here (Matthew 22:2, Matthew 22:3, Matthew 22:4, Matthew 22:9), is very common in the papyri for the wedding festivities (the several acts of feasting) which lasted for days, seven in Judges 14:17. The very phrase here, γαμους ποιειν gamous poiein occurs in the Doric of Thera about b.c. 200. The singular γαμος gamos is common in the papyri for the wedding contract, but Field (Notes, p. 16) sees no difference between the singular here in Matthew 22:8 and the plural (see also Genesis 29:22; Esther 9:22; 1 Maccabees 10:58). [source]
The one lost sheep There is nothing more helpless than a lost sheep except a lost sinner. The sheep went off by its own ignorance and folly. The use of επι epi for the goal occurs also in Matthew 22:9; Acts 8:26; Acts 9:11.Until he find it (εως ευρηι αυτο heōs heurēi auto). Second aorist active subjunctive of ευρισκω heuriskō common verb, with εως heōs common Greek idiom. He keeps on going (πορευεται poreuetai linear present middle indicative) until success comes (effective aorist, ευρηι heurēi). [source]
The verb is used in the following senses: 1. To give a name, with ὄνομα name Matthew 1:21, Matthew 1:22, Matthew 1:25; Luke 1:13, Luke 1:31; without ὄνομα Luke 1:59, Luke 1:60. To salute by a name, Matthew 23:9; Matthew 22:43, Matthew 22:45. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- 2. Passive. To bear a name or title among men, Luke 1:35; Luke 22:25; 1 Corinthians 15:9. To be acknowledged or to pass as, Matthew 5:9, Matthew 5:19; James 2:23. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- 3. To invite, Matthew 22:3, Matthew 22:9; John 2:2; 1 Corinthians 10:27. To summon, Matthew 4:21; Acts 4:18; Acts 24:2. To call out from, Matthew 2:15; Hebrews 11:8; 1 Peter 2:9. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- 4. To appoint. Select for an office, Galatians 1:15; Hebrews 5:4; to salvation, Romans 9:11; Romans 8:30. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- 5. Of God's creative decree. To call forth from nothing, Isaiah 41:4; 2 Kings 8:1. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- In this last sense some explain the word here; but it can scarcely be said that God creates things that are not as actually existing. Others explain, God's disposing decree. He disposes of things that are not as though existing. The simplest explanation appears to be to give καλεῖν the sense of nameth, speaketh of. Compare Romans 9:7; Acts 7:5. The seed of Abraham “which were at present in the category of things which were not, and the nations which should spring physically or spiritually from him, God spoke of as having an existence, which word Abraham believed” (Alford). In this case there may properly be added the idea of the summons to the high destiny ordained for Abraham's seed. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- [source]