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Ephesians 6:3

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← Ephesians 6:2	Ephesians 6:3 (KJV)	Ephesians 6:4 →
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)	That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.	And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

That^G2443 it may be^G1096 well^G2095 with thee^G4671, and^G2532 thou mayest^G2071 live long^G3118 on^G1909 the earth^G1093.

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Original Greek

ἵνα εὖ σοι γένηται, καὶ ἔσῃ μακροχρόνιος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Greek	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
ἵνα	hina	G2443	CONJ	That
εὖ	eu	G2095	ADV	well
σοι	soi	G4671	P-2DS	with thee
γένηται,	genētai	G1096	V-2ADS-3S	it may be
καὶ	kai	G2532	CONJ	and
ἔσῃ	esē	G2071	V-FDI-2S	thou mayest
μακροχρόνιος	makrochronios	G3118	A-NSM	live long
ἐπὶ	epi	G1909	PREP	on
τῆς	tēs	G3588	T-GSF	the
γῆς.	gēs	G1093	N-GSF	earth

Source: Textus Receptus (Scrivener 1894)

Strong's References

• G1093 — γῆ (gē, ghay): the earth, soil, land — contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):--country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
• G1096 — γίνομαι (gínomai, ghin'-om-ahee): I come into being, am born — a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.):--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
• G1909 — ἐπί (epí, ep-ee'): on, to, against, on the basis of, at — a primary preposition; properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc.:--about (the times), above, after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, X have charge of, (be-, (where-))fore, in (a place, as much as, the time of, -to), (because) of, (up-)on (behalf of), over, (by, for) the space of, through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), with. In compounds it retains essentially the same import, at, upon, etc. (literally or figuratively).
• G2071 — ἔσομαι (ésomai, es'-om-ahee): future of εἰμί; will be:--shall (should) be (have), (shall) come (to pass), X may have, X fall, what would follow, X live long, X sojourn.
• G2095 — εὖ (eû, yoo): well, well done — neuter of a primary (good); (adverbially) well:--good, well (done).
• G2443 — ἵνα (hína, hin'-ah): in order that, so that — probably from the same as the former part of ἑαυτοῦ (through the demonstrative idea; compare ὁ); in order that (denoting the purpose or the result):--albeit, because, to the intent (that), lest, so as, (so) that, (for) to. Compare ἵνα μή.
• G2532 — καί (kaí, kahee): and, even, also, namely — apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
• G3118 — μακροχρόνιος (makrochrónios, mak-rokh-ron'-ee-os): long-lived — from μακρός and χρόνος; long-timed, i.e. long-lived:--live long.
• G4671 — σοί (soí, soy): dative case of σύ; to thee:--thee, thine own, thou, thy.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Greek (Textus Receptus, Scrivener 1894) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• G3588 — ὁ (ho, ho): the — the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.

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