Ephesians 3:18

Ephesians 3:18

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

a. NLT: And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.

b. NIV: May have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

c. YLT: That ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

d. Amplified Bible Classic: That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

e. Worrell Translation: May be strong to apprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth.

    

f. Wuest Translation: In order that you may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the breadth and width and height and dept,

g. Peshitta Eastern Text: So that you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the height and depth and length and breadth.

1. “May be able to comprehend with all saints…”

a. May be able [Strong: 1840 exischuo ex-is-khoo'-o from 1537 and 2480; to have full strength, i.e. be entirely competent:--be able.]

b. to comprehend [Strong: 2638 katalambano kat-al-am-ban'-o from 2596 and 2983; to take eagerly, i.e. seize, possess, etc. (literally or figuratively):--apprehend, attain, come upon, comprehend, find, obtain, perceive, (over-)take.]

c. with [Strong: 4862 sun soon a primary preposition denoting union; with or together (but much closer than 3326 or 3844), i.e. by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc.:--beside, with. In composition it has similar applications, including completeness.]

d. all [Strong: 3956 pas pas including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole:--all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.]

e. saints [Strong: 40 hagios hag'-ee-os from hagos (an awful thing) (compare 53, 2282); sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated):--(most) holy (one, thing), saint.]

2. “…what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;”

a. what [Strong: 5101  tis tis probably emphatic of 5100; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions):--every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.]

b. [is] the [Strong: 3588 ho ho, including the feminine he hay, and the neuter to to in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.]

c. breadth [Strong: 4114 platos plat'-os from 4116; width:--breadth.]

d. and [Strong: 2532 kai kahee apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.]

e. length [Strong: 3372 mekos may'-kos probably akin to 3173; length (literally or figuratively) length.]

f. and [Strong: 2532 kai kahee apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.]

g. depth [Srong: 899 bathos bath'-os from the same as 901; profundity, i.e. (by implication) extent; (figuratively) mystery:--deep(-ness, things), depth.]

h. and [Strong: 2532 kai kahee apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.]

i. heighth [Strong: 5311 hupsos hoop'-sos from a derivative of 5228; elevation, i.e. (abstractly) altitude, (specially), the sky, or (figuratively) dignity:--be exalted, height, (on) high.]