4 And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and will be turned to fables.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to 2 Timothy 4:4. 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.
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.
καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς ἀληθείας τὴν ἀκοὴν ἀποστρέψουσιν, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς μύθους ἐκτραπήσονται.
καὶ
ἀπὸ
μὲν
τῆς
ἀληθείας
τὴν
ἀκοὴν
ἀποστρέψουσιν
- Lemma
- apostreyousin
- Transliteration
- apostreyousin
- Morphology
- Greek: verb future active indicative plural
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G654
- Occurrences
- 1
ἐπὶ
δὲ
τοὺς
μύθους
ἐκτραπήσονται
- Lemma
- ektraphsontai
- Transliteration
- ektraphsontai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb second future passive indicative plural
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G1624
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς ἀληθείας τὴν ἀκοὴν ἀποστρέψουσιν, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς μύθους ἐκτραπήσονται.
καὶ
τῆς
τὴν
τοὺς
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.
ܘܡܢ ܫܪܪܐ ܢܗܦܟܘܢ ܐܕܢܗܘܢ ܠܫܘܥܝܬܐ ܕܝܢ ܢܣܛܘܢ
ܘܡܢ
- 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
- ܘܡܢ
- Transliteration
- wmn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 285
ܫܪܪܐ
- 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
- ܫܪܪܐ
- Transliteration
- shrr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 33
ܢܗܦܟܘܢ
- 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
- ܢܗܦܟܘܢ
- Transliteration
- nhpkwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 4
ܐܕܢܗܘܢ
- 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
- ܐܕܢܗܘܢ
- Transliteration
- 'dnhwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 1
ܠܫܘܥܝܬܐ
- 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
- ܠܫܘܥܝܬܐ
- Transliteration
- lshw'yt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 3
ܕܝܢ
- 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
- ܕܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1830
ܢܣܛܘܢ
- 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
- ܢܣܛܘܢ
- Transliteration
- nstwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
et a veritate quidem auditum avertent, ad fabulas autem convertentur.
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
a
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ab
- Transliteration
- a
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 3693
veritate
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ueritas
- Transliteration
- veritate
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 269
quidem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quidem
- Transliteration
- quidem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 283
auditum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- auditus
- Transliteration
- auditum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 54
avertent
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- auerto
- Transliteration
- avertent
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 138
ad
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ad
- Transliteration
- ad
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 7531
fabulas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- fabula
- Transliteration
- fabulas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 9
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
convertentur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- conuerto
- Transliteration
- convertentur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 343
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.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and withdrew the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
19 relevance votesActs 7:57
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
10 relevance votes2 Peter 1:16
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
9 relevance votes1 Timothy 1:4
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith; so do .
9 relevance votes1 Timothy 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather to godliness.
8 relevance votesTitus 1:14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn from the truth.
6 relevance votes1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called;
5 relevance votesProverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
4 relevance votes2 Timothy 1:15
This thou knowest, that all they who are in Asia are turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
4 relevance votesHebrews 13:25
Grace be with you all. Amen.
3 relevance votes