8 Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Ephesians 4:8. 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.
When a verse uses different numbering in a source tradition, Spirit Nation may show the closest mapped source reference and label it directly on the panel.
Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Διὸ λέγει, Ἀναβὰς εἰς ὕψος ᾐχμαλώτευσεν αἰχμαλωσίαν, καὶ ἔδωκε δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις.
Διὸ
λέγει
Ἀναβὰς
εἰς
ὕψος
ᾐχμαλώτευσεν
- Lemma
- hcmalwteusen
- Transliteration
- hcmalwteusen
- Morphology
- Greek: verb aorist active indicative singular
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G162
- Occurrences
- 1
αἰχμαλωσίαν
- Lemma
- aicmalwsian
- Transliteration
- aicmalwsian
- Morphology
- Greek: noun accusative singular feminine
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Strong's
- G161
- Occurrences
- 3
καὶ
ἔδωκε
δόματα
τοῖς
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
διὸ λέγει, ἀναβὰς εἰς ὕψος ᾐχμαλώτευσεν αἰχμαλωσίαν, ἔδωκεν δόματα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις.
ᾐχμαλώτευσεν
- Lemma
- αἰχμαλωτεύω
- Morphology
- V-AAI-3S
- Part of Speech
- V
- Strong's
- G0162
- Occurrences
- 1
αἰχμαλωσίαν,
- Lemma
- αἰχμαλωσία
- Morphology
- N-ASF
- Part of Speech
- N
- Strong's
- G0161
- Occurrences
- 3
τοῖς
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.
ܡܛܠ ܗܢܐ ܐܡܝܪ ܕܣܠܩ ܠܡܪܘܡܐ ܘܫܒܐ ܫܒܝܬܐ ܘܝܗܒ ܡܘܗܒܬܐ ܠܒܢܝܢܫܐ
ܡܛܠ
- 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
- ܡܛܠ
- Transliteration
- mtl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 632
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
ܐܡܝܪ
- 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
- ܐܡܝܪ
- Transliteration
- 'myr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 5
ܕܣܠܩ
- 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
- ܕܣܠܩ
- Transliteration
- dslq
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 10
ܠܡܪܘܡܐ
- 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
- ܠܡܪܘܡܐ
- Transliteration
- lmrwm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܘܫܒܐ
- 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
- ܘܫܒܐ
- Transliteration
- wshb'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 3
ܫܒܝܬܐ
- 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
- ܫܒܝܬܐ
- Transliteration
- shbyt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 1
ܘܝܗܒ
- 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
- ܘܝܗܒ
- Transliteration
- wyhb
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 46
ܡܘܗܒܬܐ
- 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
- ܡܘܗܒܬܐ
- Transliteration
- mwhbt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 27
ܠܒܢܝܢܫܐ
- 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
- ܠܒܢܝܢܫܐ
- Transliteration
- lbnynsh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 27
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Propter quod dicit: Ascendens in altum, captivam duxit captivitatem: dedit dona hominibus.
propter
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- propter
- Transliteration
- propter
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 688
quod
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- quod
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
dicit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dico
- Transliteration
- dicit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 6477
ascendens
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ascendo
- Transliteration
- ascendens
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 671
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
altum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- altus
- Transliteration
- altum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 112
captivam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- captiuus
- Transliteration
- captivam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 56
duxit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- duco
- Transliteration
- duxit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 271
captivitatem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- captiuitas
- Transliteration
- captivitatem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 92
dedit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- do
- Transliteration
- dedit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 2116
dona
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- donum
- Transliteration
- dona
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 61
hominibus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- homo
- Transliteration
- hominibus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1653
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.
Psalms 68:18
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
89 relevance votesColossians 2:15
Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
17 relevance votes1 Samuel 30:26
When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”
0 relevance votesEsther 2:18
Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.
0 relevance votesJudges 5:12
‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
0 relevance votes