9 And his disciples were questioning him, saying, 'What may this simile be?'
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Luke 8:9. 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
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Ἐπηρώτων δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ, λέγοντες, Τίς εἴη ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη;
Ἐπηρώτων
δὲ
αὐτὸν
οἱ
μαθηταὶ
αὐτοῦ
λέγοντες
Τίς
εἴη
ἡ
παραβολὴ
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
Ἐπηρώτων δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ τίς αὕτη εἴη ἡ παραβολή.
οἱ
εἴη
ἡ
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.
ܘܫܐܠܘܗܝ ܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ ܕܡܢܘ ܡܬܠܐ ܗܢܐ
ܘܫܐܠܘܗܝ
- 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
- ܘܫܐܠܘܗܝ
- Transliteration
- wsh'lwhy
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 13
ܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ
- 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
- ܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ
- Transliteration
- tlmydwhy
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 109
ܕܡܢܘ
- 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
- ܕܡܢܘ
- Transliteration
- dmnw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 16
ܡܬܠܐ
- 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
- ܡܬܠܐ
- Transliteration
- mtl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 33
ܗܢܐ
- 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
- ܗܢܐ
- Transliteration
- hn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 482
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Interrogabant autem eum discipuli ejus, quæ esset hæc parabola.
interrogabant
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- interrogo
- Transliteration
- interrogabant
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 200
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
eum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
discipuli
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- discipulus
- Transliteration
- discipuli
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 261
eius
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eius
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
quae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quis
- Transliteration
- quae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1619
esset
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- esset
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
haec
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- hic
- Transliteration
- haec
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 4646
parabola
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- parabola
- Transliteration
- parabola
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 77
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.
Matthew 13:10
And the disciples having come near, said to him, 'Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'
4 relevance votesMatthew 13:18
'Ye, therefore, hear ye the simile of the sower:
4 relevance votesMark 4:10
And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,
4 relevance votesHosea 6:3
And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'
3 relevance votesMatthew 15:15
And Peter answering said to him, 'Explain to us this simile.'
3 relevance votesMark 4:34
and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.
3 relevance votesJohn 15:15
no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.
3 relevance votesMatthew 13:36
Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, 'Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'
3 relevance votes