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Luke 11:24

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

KJV

Ὅταν τὸ ἀκάθαρτον πνεῦμα ἐξέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, διέρχεται δι’ ἀνύδρων τόπων ζητοῦν ἀνάπαυσιν, καὶ μὴ εὑρίσκον, λέγει· ὑποστρέψω εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου ὅθεν ἐξῆλθον·

Greek NT

Cum immundus spiritus exierit de homine, ambulat per loca inaquosa, quærens requiem : et non inveniens dicit : Revertar in domum meam unde exivi.

Vulgate

The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out.

ASV

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest: and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διά
dia
preposition · 633×
διέρχομαι
dierchomai
verb · 41×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οἶκος
oikos
noun · 115×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
τόπος
topos
noun · 95×
ἀκάθαρτος
akathartos
adjective · 31×
ἀνάπαυσις
anapausis
noun · 5×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἄνυδρος
anudros
adjective · 4×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
o
article · 19778×
ὅθεν
othen
adverb · 15×
ὅταν
otan
conjunction · 123×
ὑποστρέφω
upostrepho
verb · 36×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: εὑρίσκον | Treg/RP: εὑρίσκον | WH/NIV: + τότε
  • εὑρίσκονSBLGNT
  • εὑρίσκονTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
  • + τότεWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 2Pet 2:20 — For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
  • Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
  • Heb 6:4 — For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
  • Isa 35:1 — The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
  • Isa 35:7 — And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
  • Isa 41:17 — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
  • Isa 44:3 — For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
  • Isa 48:22 — There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
  • Isa 57:20 — But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • Job 1:7 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
  • Job 2:2 — And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
  • Mark 5:10 — And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
  • Mark 9:25 — When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
  • Matt 12:43 — When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
  • Matt 12:43 — When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
  • Prov 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
  • Ps 63:1 — O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;