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Luke 8:4

And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

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Συνιόντοςsuniontoswere gathered togetherσύνειμι (suneimi)verb, present active participle, genitive, singular, masculine — “were gathered together”, an ongoing or repeated actionG4896I come together.were gathered togetherδὲdebutδέconjunction — “but”G1161a weak adversative particle, generally placed second in its clause; but, on the other hand, and.This verse uses “but”.ὄχλουochloucrowdὄχλος (ochlos)noun, genitive, singular, masculine — “crowd”, the of-formG3793a crowd, mob, the common people.πολλοῦpolloumuchπολύς (polus)adjective, genitive, singular, masculine — “much”, the of-formG4183much, many; often.This verse uses “much”.καὶkaiandκαίconjunction — “and”G2532and, even, also, namely.This verse uses “and”.andτῶνtōntheὁ (ho)article, genitive, plural, masculine — “the”, the of-formG3588the, the definite article.κατὰkataout of everyκατάpreposition — “out of every”G2596gen: against, down from, throughout, by; acc: over against, among, daily, day-by-day, each day, according to, by way of.out of everyπόλινpolincityπόλις (polis)noun, accusative, singular, feminine — “city”, the object formG4172a city, the inhabitants of a city.cityἐπιπορευομένωνepiporeuomenōnto comeἐπιπορεύομαι (epiporeuomai)verb, present middle participle, genitive, plural, masculine — “to come”, an ongoing or repeated actionG1975I travel, journey (to).πρὸςprostoπρόςpreposition — “to”G4314to, towards, with.αὐτὸνautonheαὐτός (autos)personal pronoun, accusative, singular, masculine — “he”, the object formG846he, she, it, they, them, same.εἶπενeipento sayλέγω (légō)Greek uses a different stem for this verb’s past forms.verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular — “to say”, a single actionG3004(denoting speech in progress), (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.This verse uses “say”.Strong’s files this form under G2036 (ἔπω, speak/say).he spakeδιὰdiabyδιάpreposition — “by”G1223(a) gen: through, throughout, by the instrumentality of, (b) acc: through, on account of, by reason of, for the sake of, because of.byπαραβολῆςparabolēsa parableπαραβολή (parabolē)noun, genitive, singular, feminine — “a parable”, the of-formG3850(a) a comparison, (b) a parable, often of those uttered by our Lord, (c) a proverb, an adage.This verse uses “a parable”.a parable

Literal (Young’s Literal Translation)

And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:

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American Standard Version (1901)

And when a great multitude came together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable:

Young’s Literal Translation

And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:

World English Bible

When a great multitude came together and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable:

Darby Translation

And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:

Douay-Rheims

And when a very great multitude was gathered together, and hastened out of the cities unto him, he spoke by a similitude.

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