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James 3:7

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

KJV

πᾶσα γὰρ φύσις θηρίων τε καὶ πετεινῶν ἑρπετῶν τε καὶ ἐναλίων δαμάζεται καὶ δεδάμασται τῇ φύσει τῇ ἀνθρωπίνῃ·

Greek NT

Omnis enim natura bestiarum, et volucrum, et serpentium, et ceterorum domantur, et domita sunt a natura humana :

Vulgate

For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:

ASV

For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δαμάζω
damazo
verb · 4×
θηρίον
therion
noun · 45×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πετεινόν
peteinon
noun · 14×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
φύσις
phusis
noun · 14×
ἀνθρώπινος
anthropinos
adjective · 7×
ἐνάλιος
enalios
adjective · 1×
ἑρπετόν
erpeton
noun · 4×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Gen 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
  • Gen 9:2 — And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand