9 And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”
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Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Matthew 15:9. 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.
Μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων.
Μάτην
δὲ
σέβονταί
με
διδάσκοντες
- Lemma
- didaskontev
- Transliteration
- didaskontev
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present active participle nominative plural masculine
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G1321
- Occurrences
- 9
διδασκαλίας
- Lemma
- didaskaliav
- Transliteration
- didaskaliav
- Morphology
- Greek: noun accusative plural feminine
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Strong's
- G1319
- Occurrences
- 6
ἐντάλματα
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων.
διδασκαλίας
- Lemma
- διδασκαλία
- Morphology
- N-APF
- Part of Speech
- N
- Strong's
- G1319
- Occurrences
- 21
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.
ܘܣܪܝܩܐܝܬ ܕܚܠܝܢ ܠܝ ܟܕ ܡܠܦܝܢ ܝܘܠܦܢܐ ܕܦܘܩܕܢܐ ܕܒܢܝܢܫܐ
ܘܣܪܝܩܐܝܬ
- 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
- ܘܣܪܝܩܐܝܬ
- Transliteration
- wsryq'yt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 3
ܕܚܠܝܢ
- 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
- ܕܚܠܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dhlyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 9
ܠܝ
- 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
- ܠܝ
- Transliteration
- ly
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 440
ܟܕ
- 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
- ܟܕ
- Transliteration
- kd
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 730
ܡܠܦܝܢ
- 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
- ܡܠܦܝܢ
- Transliteration
- mlpyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 3
ܝܘܠܦܢܐ
- 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
- ܝܘܠܦܢܐ
- Transliteration
- ywlpn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 19
ܕܦܘܩܕܢܐ
- 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
- ܕܦܘܩܕܢܐ
- Transliteration
- dpwqdn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 6
ܕܒܢܝܢܫܐ
- 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
- ܕܒܢܝܢܫܐ
- Transliteration
- dbnynsh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 34
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Sine causa autem colunt me, docentes doctrinas et mandata hominum.]
sine
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sine
- Transliteration
- sine
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 241
causa
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- causa
- Transliteration
- causa
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 156
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
colunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- colo
- Transliteration
- colunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 77
me
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ego
- Transliteration
- me
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 6108
docentes
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- doceo
- Transliteration
- docentes
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 226
doctrinas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- doctrina
- Transliteration
- doctrinas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 113
mandata
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- mandatum
- Transliteration
- mandata
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 242
hominum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- homo
- Transliteration
- hominum
- 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.
Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
36 relevance votesMark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
20 relevance votesTitus 1:14
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
14 relevance votes1 Timothy 1:4
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.
14 relevance votesHebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
8 relevance votesJames 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
6 relevance votesDeuteronomy 12:32
Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
5 relevance votesRevelation 22:18
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book.
4 relevance votesPsalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
4 relevance votes1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
4 relevance votesExodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
4 relevance votesPsalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
3 relevance votes