2 Timothy 2:6

2 Timothy 2:6

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

a. NLT: And hardworking farmers should be the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor. [Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.]

b. ASV: The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits. [Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.]

c. YLT: He labouring husbandman it behoveth first of the fruits to partake;  [The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.]

d. Classic Amplified: [It is] the hard-working farmer [who labors to produce] who must be the first partaker of the fruits. [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation]

1. “The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.”

a. The [Strong: 3588. [ton] 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.] [Thayer: [ton] ὁ, ἡ, τό, originally τος, τῇ, τό (as is evident from the forms τοι, ται for οἱ, αἱ in Homer and the Ionic writings), corresponds to our definite article the (German der, die, das), which is properly a demonstrative pronoun, which we see in its full force in Homer, and of which we find certain indubitable traces also in all kinds of Greek prose, and hence also in the N. T.]

b. husbandman [Strong: 1092. georgos gheh-ore-gos' from 1093 and the base of 2041; a land-worker, i.e. farmer:--husbandman.]

c. [that] laboureth [Strong: 2872. kopiao kop-ee-ah'-o from a derivative of 2873; to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard:--(bestow) labour, toil, be wearied.]

d. must be [Strong: 1163. dei die 3d person singular active present of 1210; also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding):--behoved, be meet, must (needs), (be) need(-ful), ought, should.]

e. first [Strong: 4412. proton pro'-ton neuter of 4413 as adverb (with or without 3588); firstly (in time, place, order, or importance):--before, at the beginning, chiefly (at, at the) first (of all).]

f. partaker [Strong: 3335. metalambano met-al-am-ban'-o from 3326 and 2983; to participate; genitive case, to accept (and use):--eat, have, be partaker, receive, take.]

1). Barnes' Notes on the Bible: The husbandman that laboureth - The margin is, "labouring first, must be partaker." The idea, according to the translation in the text, is, that there is a fitness or propriety (δει dei) that the man who cultivates the earth, should enjoy the fruits of his labor (1 Corinthians 9:10).

a). 1 Corinthians 9:10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

g. [of] the [Strong: 3588. [ton] 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.] [Thayer: [ton] ὁ, ἡ, τό, originally τος, τῇ, τό (as is evident from the forms τοι, ται for οἱ, αἱ in Homer and the Ionic writings), corresponds to our definite article the (German der, die, das), which is properly a demonstrative pronoun, which we see in its full force in Homer, and of which we find certain indubitable traces also in all kinds of Greek prose, and hence also in the N. T.]

h. fruits [Strong: 2590. karpos kar-pos' probably from the base of 726; fruit (as plucked), literally or figuratively:--fruit.]