21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to James 2:21. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Ἀβραὰμ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων ἐδικαιώθη, ἀνενέγκας Ἰσαὰκ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον;
Ἀβραὰμ
ὁ
πατὴρ
ἡμῶν
οὐκ
ἐξ
ἔργων
ἐδικαιώθη
ἀνενέγκας
Ἰσαὰκ
τὸν
υἱὸν
αὐτοῦ
ἐπὶ
τὸ
θυσιαστήριον
- Lemma
- qusiasthrion
- Transliteration
- qusiasthrion
- Morphology
- Greek: noun accusative singular neuter
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Strong's
- G2379
- Occurrences
- 7
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
Ἀβραὰμ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων ἐδικαιώθη, ἀνενέγκας Ἰσαὰκ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον;
ὁ
τὸν
τὸ
θυσιαστήριον;
- Lemma
- θυσιαστήριον
- Morphology
- N-ASN
- Part of Speech
- N
- Strong's
- G2379
- Occurrences
- 23
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.
ܐܒܘܢ ܐܒܪܗܡ ܠܐ ܗܘܐ ܡܢ ܥܒܕܐ ܐܙܕܕܩ ܕܐܣܩ ܠܐܝܣܚܩ ܒܪܗ ܥܠ ܡܕܒܚܐ
ܐܒܘܢ
- 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
- ܐܒܘܢ
- Transliteration
- 'bwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 25
ܐܒܪܗܡ
- 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
- ܐܒܪܗܡ
- Transliteration
- 'brhm
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 33
ܠܐ
- 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
- ܠܐ
- Transliteration
- la
- Morphology
- negative particle
- Gloss
- not
- Occurrences
- 1681
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
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
ܥܒܕܐ
- 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
- ܥܒܕܐ
- Transliteration
- 'bd'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 132
ܐܙܕܕܩ
- 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
- ܐܙܕܕܩ
- Transliteration
- 'zddq
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 2
ܕܐܣܩ
- 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
- ܕܐܣܩ
- Transliteration
- d'sq
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 2
ܠܐܝܣܚܩ
- 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
- ܠܐܝܣܚܩ
- Transliteration
- l'yshq
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 4
ܒܪܗ
- 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
- ܒܪܗ
- Transliteration
- brh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 139
ܥܠ
- 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
- ܥܠ
- Transliteration
- 'l
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 909
ܡܕܒܚܐ
- 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
- ܡܕܒܚܐ
- Transliteration
- mdbh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 11
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Abraham pater noster nonne ex operibus justificatus est, offerens Isaac filium suum super altare?
Abraham
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Abraham
- Transliteration
- Abraham
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 214
pater
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- pater
- Transliteration
- pater
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1575
noster
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- noster
- Transliteration
- noster
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1263
nonne
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nonne
- Transliteration
- nonne
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 208
ex
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ex
- Transliteration
- ex
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 1715
operibus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- opus
- Transliteration
- operibus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 656
iustificatus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- iustifico
- Transliteration
- iustificatus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 80
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
offerens
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- offero
- Transliteration
- offerens
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 529
Isaac
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Isaac
- Transliteration
- Isaac
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 111
filium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- filius
- Transliteration
- filium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 5067
suum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suus
- Transliteration
- suum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5783
super
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- super
- Transliteration
- super
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 3146
altare
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- altare
- Transliteration
- altare
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 363
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 8:39
They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Yeshua said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
4 relevance votesMatthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
3 relevance votesRomans 4:16
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
3 relevance votesJohn 8:53
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
2 relevance votesJames 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
2 relevance votesLuke 1:73
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
2 relevance votesActs 7:2
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
2 relevance votesMatthew 3:9
Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
2 relevance votesJoshua 24:3
I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
2 relevance votesRomans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
2 relevance votesRomans 3:20
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
2 relevance votesJames 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
2 relevance votes