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Luke 4:27

And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

KJV

καὶ πολλοὶ λεπροὶ ἦσαν ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ Ἐλισαίου τοῦ προφήτου, καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτῶν ἐκαθαρίσθη εἰ μὴ Ναιμὰν ὁ Σύρος.

Greek NT

Et multi leprosi erant in Israël sub Eliseo propheta : et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.

Vulgate

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.

ASV

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Νεεμάν
neeman
noun · 1×
Σύρος
suros
noun · 1×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
λεπρός
lepros
adjective · 9×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
Ἐλισσαῖος
elissaios
noun · 1×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
o
article · 19778×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • 2Kgs 5:14 · allusion
    "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."
    Naaman the Syrian cleansed — Jesus references in Nazareth sermon

Textual variants

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

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SBLGNT: ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ Ἐλισαίου τοῦ προφήτου | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ … προφήτου | RP: ἐπὶ … προφήτου ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ
  • ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ Ἐλισαίου τοῦ προφήτουSBLGNT
  • ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ … προφήτουWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐπὶ … προφήτου ἐν τῷ ἸσραήλRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 5:1 — Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but
  • 2Kgs 5:1 — Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but
  • 2Kgs 5:14 — Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
  • John 17:12 — While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
  • Matt 8:2 — And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.