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James 4

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17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to James 4:17. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.

Panels 4
Word Entries 39
Editorial Notes 0
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Greek Textus Receptus Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain

Coverage: New Testament

Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.

Εἰδότι οὖν καλὸν ποιεῖν καὶ μὴ ποιοῦντι, ἁμαρτία αὐτῷ ἐστίν.

10 word entries
Εἰδότι
Lemma
eidoti
Transliteration
eidoti
Morphology
Greek: verb perfect active participle dative singular masculine
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
G1492
Occurrences
1
οὖν
Lemma
oun
Transliteration
oun
Morphology
Greek: conjunction
Part of Speech
conjunction
Strong's
G3767
Occurrences
529
καλὸν
Lemma
kalon
Transliteration
kalon
Morphology
Greek: adjective accusative singular neuter
Part of Speech
adjective
Strong's
G2570
Occurrences
55
ποιεῖν
Lemma
poiein
Transliteration
poiein
Morphology
Greek: verb present active infinitive
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
G4160
Occurrences
27
καὶ
Lemma
kai
Transliteration
kai
Morphology
Greek: conjunction
Part of Speech
conjunction
Strong's
G2532
Occurrences
9284
μὴ
Lemma
mh
Transliteration
mh
Morphology
Greek: particle nominative
Part of Speech
particle
Strong's
G3361
Occurrences
1034
ποιοῦντι
Transliteration
poiounti
Morphology
Greek: verb present active participle dative singular masculine
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
G4160
Occurrences
2
ἁμαρτία
Lemma
amartia
Transliteration
amartia
Morphology
Greek: noun nominative singular feminine
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
G266
Occurrences
35
αὐτῷ
Lemma
autw
Transliteration
autw
Morphology
Greek: personal pronoun dative singular masculine
Part of Speech
personal pronoun
Strong's
G846
Occurrences
889
ἐστίν
Lemma
estin
Transliteration
estin
Morphology
Greek: verb present active indicative singular
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
G1510
Occurrences
927
Tischendorf / Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain

Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel

Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.

εἰδότι οὖν καλὸν ποιεῖν καὶ μὴ ποιοῦντι, ἁμαρτία αὐτῷ ἐστιν.

10 word entries
εἰδότι
Morphology
V-RAP-DSM
Part of Speech
V
Strong's
G1492
Occurrences
317
οὖν
Lemma
οὖν
Morphology
CONJ
Part of Speech
CONJ
Strong's
G3767
Occurrences
489
καλὸν
Morphology
A-ASM
Part of Speech
A
Strong's
G2570
Occurrences
100
ποιεῖν
Morphology
V-PAN
Part of Speech
verb
Definition
To make, do, perform, or produce.
Strong's
G4160
Occurrences
569
καὶ
Lemma
καί
Morphology
CONJ
Part of Speech
conjunction
Definition
Coordinating conjunction.
Strong's
G2532
Occurrences
8969
μὴ
Lemma
μή
Morphology
PRT-N
Part of Speech
PRT
Strong's
G3361
Occurrences
1033
ποιοῦντι,
Morphology
V-PAP-DSM
Part of Speech
verb
Definition
To make, do, perform, or produce.
Strong's
G4160
Occurrences
569
ἁμαρτία
Morphology
N-NSF
Part of Speech
N
Strong's
G0266
Occurrences
172
αὐτῷ
Morphology
P-DSM
Part of Speech
P
Strong's
G0846
Occurrences
5556
ἐστιν.
Morphology
V-PAI-3S
Part of Speech
verb
Definition
To be or exist.
Strong's
G1510
Occurrences
2459
Syriac Peshitta New Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

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.

ܘܐܝܢܐ ܕܝܕܥ ܛܒܬܐ ܘܠܐ ܥܒܕ ܠܗ ܚܛܗܐ ܗܘܐ ܠܗ

9 word entries
ܘܐܝܢܐ
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.
Transliteration
w'yn'
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences
25
ܕܝܕܥ
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.
Transliteration
dyd'
Morphology
Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
Occurrences
20
ܛܒܬܐ
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.
Transliteration
tbt'
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences
55
ܘܠܐ
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
ܘܠܐ
Transliteration
wl'
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences
732
ܥܒܕ
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
ܥܒܕ
Transliteration
abad
Morphology
verb root/form
Gloss
made, did, served
Occurrences
146
ܠܗ
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
ܠܗ
Transliteration
lh
Morphology
Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
Occurrences
1592
ܚܛܗܐ
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.
Transliteration
hth'
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences
32
ܗܘܐ
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
ܗܘܐ
Transliteration
hwa
Morphology
verb, being/becoming root form
Gloss
was, became
Occurrences
1535
ܠܗ
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
ܠܗ
Transliteration
lh
Morphology
Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
Occurrences
1592
Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.

10 word entries
scienti
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
scio
Transliteration
scienti
Morphology
GreLa POS: adjective
Occurrences
693
igitur
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
igitur
Transliteration
igitur
Morphology
GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Occurrences
420
bonum
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
bonus
Transliteration
bonum
Morphology
GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences
847
facere
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
facio
Transliteration
facere
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
4719
et
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
et
Transliteration
et
Morphology
GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Gloss
and
Part of Speech
conjunction
Definition
and, also, even
Etymology
Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
Occurrences
50526
non
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
non
Transliteration
non
Morphology
GreLa POS: adverb
Occurrences
7320
facienti
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
facio
Transliteration
facienti
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
4719
peccatum
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Transliteration
peccatum
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
608
est
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
sum
Transliteration
est
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
20614
illi
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma
ille
Transliteration
illi
Morphology
GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences
4947

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.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

58 relevance votes

John 13:17

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

51 relevance votes

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

47 relevance votes

2 Peter 2:21

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

38 relevance votes

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

27 relevance votes

Romans 7:13

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

11 relevance votes
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