38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
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Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Matthew 5:38. 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.
Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη, Ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ, καὶ ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντος·
Ἠκούσατε
ὅτι
ἐρρέθη
Ὀφθαλμὸν
ἀντὶ
ὀφθαλμοῦ
καὶ
ὀδόντα
ἀντὶ
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη, ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ καὶ ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντος.
καὶ
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.
ܫܡܥܬܘܢ ܕܐܬܐܡܪ ܕܥܝܢܐ ܚܠܦ ܥܝܢܐ ܘܫܢܐ ܚܠܦ ܫܢܐ
ܫܡܥܬܘܢ
- 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
- ܫܡܥܬܘܢ
- Transliteration
- shm'twn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 16
ܕܐܬܐܡܪ
- 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
- ܕܐܬܐܡܪ
- Transliteration
- d't'mr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 22
ܕܥܝܢܐ
- 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
- ܕܥܝܢܐ
- Transliteration
- d'yn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 3
ܚܠܦ
- 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
- ܚܠܦ
- Transliteration
- hlp
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 68
ܥܝܢܐ
- 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
- ܥܝܢܐ
- Transliteration
- 'yn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 19
ܘܫܢܐ
- 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
- ܘܫܢܐ
- Transliteration
- wshn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1
ܚܠܦ
- 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
- ܚܠܦ
- Transliteration
- hlp
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 68
ܫܢܐ
- 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
- ܫܢܐ
- Transliteration
- shn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 14
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Audistis quia dictum est: Oculum pro oculo, et dentem pro dente.
audistis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- audio
- Transliteration
- audistis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1534
quia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quia
- Transliteration
- quia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2543
dictum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dico
- Transliteration
- dictum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 6477
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
oculum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- oculus
- Transliteration
- oculum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 682
pro
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- pro
- Transliteration
- pro
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 1148
oculo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- oculus
- Transliteration
- oculo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 682
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
dentem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dens
- Transliteration
- dentem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 59
pro
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- pro
- Transliteration
- pro
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 1148
dente
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dens
- Transliteration
- dente
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 59
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.
Deuteronomy 19:21
Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
0 relevance votes