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Luke 2:23

(As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)

KJV

καθὼς γέγραπται ἐν νόμῳ κυρίου ὅτι πᾶν ἄρσεν διανοῖγον μήτραν ἅγιον τῷ κυρίῳ κληθήσεται,

Greek NT

sicut scriptum est in lege Domini : Quia omne masculinum adaperiens vulvam, sanctum Domino vocabitur :

Vulgate

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),

ASV

As it is written in the law of the Lord: Every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
διανοίγω
dianoigo
verb · 8×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
μήτρα
metra
noun · 2×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἄῤῥην
arren
adjective · 9×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Exod 13:2 · echo
    "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine."
    Exodus: consecrate every firstborn — Jesus presented at the temple

Historic Christian voices

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

§529The presentation of Jesus in the temple shows him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the Lord.216 With Simeon and Anna, all Israel awaits its encounter with the Saviour - the name given to this event in the Byzantine tradition. Jesus is recognized as the long-expected Messiah, the "light to the nations" and the "glory of Israel", but also "a sign that is spoken against". th…
§583Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth.349 At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business.350 He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover.351 …
Texts of Holy Scripture used by these heretics to support their opinions. 1. Such, then, is the account they give of what took place within the Pleroma; such the calamities that flowed from the passion which seized upon the æon who has been named, and who was within a little of perishing by being absorbed in the universal substance, through her inquisitive searching after the F…

Cross-references

  • Exod 13:2 — Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
  • Exod 13:2 — Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
  • Exod 13:12 — That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’s.
  • Exod 22:29 — Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
  • Exod 34:19 — All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
  • Exod 34:19 — All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
  • Ezek 20:26 — And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
  • Isa 11:1 — And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
  • Num 3:13 — Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the
  • Num 3:13 — Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the
  • Num 8:16 — For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
  • Num 8:17 — For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
  • Num 18:15 — Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the fi