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Mark 5:3

Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

KJV

ὃς τὴν κατοίκησιν εἶχεν ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν, καὶ οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτι οὐδεὶς ἐδύνατο αὐτὸν δῆσαι,

Greek NT

qui domicilium habebat in monumentis, et neque catenis jam quisquam poterat eum ligare :

Vulgate

who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain;

ASV

Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέω
deo
verb · 43×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατοίκησις
katoikesis
noun · 1×
μνῆμα
mnema
noun · 10×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
οὐκέτι
ouketi
adverb · 47×
ἅλυσις
alusis
noun · 11×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

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

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SBLGNT: οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτι | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτι | RP: οὔτε ἁλύσεσιν
  • οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτιSBLGNT
  • οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οὔτε ἁλύσεσινRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Acts 19:16 — And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
  • Isa 65:4 — Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
  • Luke 8:29 — (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil
  • Mark 9:20 — And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.