4 Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Matthew 18:4. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Ὅστις οὖν ταπεινώσῃ ἑαυτὸν ὡς τὸ παιδίον τοῦτο, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ μείζων ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν.
Ὅστις
οὖν
ταπεινώσῃ
ἑαυτὸν
ὡς
τὸ
παιδίον
τοῦτο
οὗτός
ἐστιν
ὁ
μείζων
ἐν
τῇ
βασιλείᾳ
τῶν
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
ὅστις οὖν ταπεινώσει ἑαυτὸν ὡς τὸ παιδίον τοῦτο, οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ μείζων ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν.
τὸ
ἐστιν
ὁ
ἐν
τῇ
τῶν
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܡܢ ܗܟܝܠ ܕܡܡܟܟ ܢܦܫܗ ܐܝܟ ܗܢܐ ܛܠܝܐ ܗܘ ܢܗܘܐ ܪܒ ܒܡܠܟܘܬܐ ܕܫܡܝܐ
ܡܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܢ
- Transliteration
- mn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 2166
ܗܟܝܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܟܝܠ
- Transliteration
- hkyl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 250
ܕܡܡܟܟ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܡܟܟ
- Transliteration
- dmmkk
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܢܦܫܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܦܫܗ
- Transliteration
- npshh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 105
ܐܝܟ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܝܟ
- Transliteration
- 'yk
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 681
ܗܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܢܐ
- Transliteration
- hn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 482
ܛܠܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܛܠܝܐ
- Transliteration
- tly'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 33
ܗܘ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘ
- Transliteration
- hu
- Morphology
- pronoun/copula, masculine singular
- Gloss
- he, it, is
- Occurrences
- 1648
ܢܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- nhw'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 198
ܪܒ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܪܒ
- Transliteration
- rb
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 66
ܒܡܠܟܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܡܠܟܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- bmlkwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 9
ܕܫܡܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܫܡܝܐ
- Transliteration
- dshmy'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 58
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Quicumque ergo humiliaverit se sicut parvulus iste, hic est major in regno cælorum.
quicumque
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quicumque
- Transliteration
- quicumque
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 303
ergo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ergo
- Transliteration
- ergo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1237
humiliaverit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- humilio
- Transliteration
- humiliaverit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 132
se
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sui
- Transliteration
- se
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1317
sicut
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sicut
- Transliteration
- sicut
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 1559
parvulus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- paruulus
- Transliteration
- parvulus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 137
iste
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- iste
- Transliteration
- iste
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 877
hic
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- hic
- Transliteration
- hic
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 4646
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
maior
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- magnus
- Transliteration
- maior
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 1017
in
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
regno
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- regnum
- Transliteration
- regno
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 499
caelorum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- caelum
- Transliteration
- caelorum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Gloss
- heaven
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- heaven, sky
- Etymology
- Latin noun for heaven or sky; often normalized as caelum.
- Occurrences
- 740
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
19 relevance votesMark 10:43
But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant:
17 relevance votesLuke 14:11
For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
16 relevance votesLuke 9:48
And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.
12 relevance votes1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
11 relevance votesMatthew 18:1
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
10 relevance votesIsaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
9 relevance votes