Luke 14:31
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?”
ἐπί
properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc.
καθίζω
having sat down
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καθίζω
To sit, to sit down, to be seated. Kathemai. He sat down at the right hand of the Father. The sitting down of Jesus declared the work finished. Nothing remains to be added.
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πρῶτος
first
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πρῶτος
First, foremost, chief. Protos. The first shall be last and the last first. God constantly reverses human rankings. What the world considers great God may consider least.
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δυνατός
able
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δυνατός
Possible, able, powerful. Dunatos. What is impossible with man is possible with God. The impossibilities of your life are the invitation for God to show what He can do.
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ἔρχομαι
coming
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ἔρχομαι
To come, to go, to arrive. Erchomai. Come Lord Jesus. The final prayer of Scripture is an invitation. The church lives in expectation of His return.
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συμβάλλω
to engage
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συμβάλλω
to combine, i.e. (in speaking) to converse, consult, dispute, (mentally) to consider, (by implication) to aid, (personally) to join, attack
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πορεύομαι
proceeding
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πορεύομαι
to traverse, i.e. travel (literally or figuratively; especially to remove (figuratively, die), live, etc.);
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τίς
what
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τίς
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
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ὑπαντάω
to meet
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ὑπαντάω
to go opposite (meet) under (quietly), i.e. to encounter, fall in with
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βουλεύω
will take counsel
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βουλεύω
to advise, i.e. (reflexively) deliberate, or (by implication) resolve
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πόλεμος
war
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πόλεμος
warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series)
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ἤ
Or
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ἤ
disjunctive, or; comparative, than
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εἰμί
he is
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εἰμί
I exist (used only when emphatic)
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ἕτερος
with another
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ἕτερος
(an-, the) other or different
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χιλιάς
thousand
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χιλιάς
one thousand ("chiliad")
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εἰ
whether
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εἰ
if, whether, that, etc.
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εἴκοσι
twenty
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εἴκοσι
a score
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