Romans 2:19

Romans 2:19

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

a. NLT: You are convinced that you are a guide for the blind and a light for people who are lost in darkness.

b. NIV: If you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark,

c. YLT: And hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

d. Amplified Bible Classic: And if you are confident that you [yourself] are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, and [that]

e. Peshitta Eastern Text:An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, you are the semblance of knowledge and of the truth as embodied in the law. 

1. “And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,”

a. And [Strong: 5037 te teh a primary particle (enclitic) of connection or addition; both or also (properly, as correlation of 2532):--also, and, both, even, then, whether. Often used in composition, usually as the latter participle.]

b. art confident [Strong: 3982 peitho pi'-tho a primary verb; to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty):--agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.]

c. that thou thyself [Strong: 4572 seautou seh-ow-too', genitive case from 4571 and 846, also dative case of the same, seautoi seh-ow-to', and accusative case seauton seh-ow-ton', likewise contracted sautou sow-too', sautoi sow-to', and sauton sow-ton', respectively of (with, to) thyself:--thee, thine own self, (thou) thy(-self).]

d. art [Strong: 1511 einai i'-nahee present infinitive from 1510; to exist:--am, was. come, is, X lust after, X please well, there is, to be, was.]

e. a guide [Strong: 3595 hodegos hod-ayg-os' from 3598 and 2233; a conductor (literally or figuratively (teacher)):--guide, leader.]

     

f. [of the] blind [Strong: 5185 tuphlos toof-los' from, 5187; opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically or mentally):--blind.]

g. a light [Strong: 5457 phos foce from an obsolete phao (to shine or make manifest, especially by rays; compare 5316, 5346); luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or concrete, literal or figurative):--fire, light.]

h. of them which are [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.]

i. in [Strong: 1722 en en a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.:--about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.]

     

j. darkness [Strong: skotos skot'-os from the base of 4639; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively):--darkness.]