When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
Blessed are they who hungerand thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”
Came = προσέρχομαι = proserchomai
to come or go near to; draw near; approach
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
come or go to; approach, draw nigh; come in, surrender, capitulate; come forward to speak; appear before a tribunal; approach an official; have recourse to
Poor in spirit = πτωχός = ptōchos
one who crouches and cowers; reduced to beggary, begging, asking alms; destitute of wealth, influence, position, honour;lowly, afflicted, destitute of the Christian virtues and eternal riches; helpless, powerless to accomplish an end; destitute of wealth of learning and intellectual culture which the schools afford (men of this class most readily give themselves up to Christ's teaching and proved themselves fitted to lay hold of the heavenly treasure); absolute or public mendicancy
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
Beggarly
Synonyms of the New Testament: Richard C. Trench
one who in the sense of his abjectness and needs crouches ... in the presence of his superiors;so poor that he only obtains his living by begging
Mourn = πενθέω =pentheō
Lament; to grieve (the feeling or the act)
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
bewail, lament; go into mourning
Meek = πραΰς = praus
mildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
soft, gentle; mild; tame
Hunger = πεινάω = peinaō
to suffer want; to be needy; to crave ardently, to seek with eager desire;
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
to be hungry; to be starved; crave after
Thirst = διψάω = dipsaō
suffer from thirst; painfully feel their want of, and eagerly long for
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
to be thirsty, parched; thirst after a thing
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