Mark 8:19
Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.) Mark 8:19 appears in the Greek New Testament. The text above is from the Tischendorf 8th edition. Each word links to its Strong’s number and a concise gloss. Click any word for its full Thayer’s Greek Lexicon entry.
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."
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World English Bible Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."
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King James Version Public Domain
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
When I broke the five loaves for the 5, 000, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They say to him, “12.”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Twelve."
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.
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King James Version Public Domain
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of broken meate tooke ye vp? They said vnto him, Twelue.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up They say to him, Twelve.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, `Twelve.'
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
When I broke the five loaves to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They say to Him, “Twelve.”
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces of bread did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
When I broke the five loaves for the 5, 000, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They say to him, “12.”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
When I divided the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Don't you remember when I shared five loaves among five thousand? How many basketfuls of leftovers did you pick up?” “Twelve,” they replied.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.
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Text-Critical English NT CC BY 4.0
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”
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Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain
When I brake v. loves amonge.v.M. How many baskettes full of broke meate toke ye vp? They sayde vnto him twelve.
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- Appears 6× in the Greek New Testament
- First appears at Matthew 14:21
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Case
- Accusative
- Number
- Plural
- Gender
- Masculine
Full Thayer's Definition
- ὅτε hóte G3753 “when” Adverb
- τοὺς ho G3588 “the” Article, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- πέντε pénte G4002 “five” Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable)
- ἄρτους ártos G740 “bread” Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- ἔκλασα kláō G2806 “to break” Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular
- εἰς eis G1519 “into” Preposition
- τοὺς ho G3588 “the” Article, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- πεντακισχιλίους pentakischílioi G4000 “five thousand” Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- καὶ kaí G2532 “and” Conjunction
- πόσους pósos G4214 “how much” Correlative/interrogative pronoun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- κοφίνους kóphinos G2894 “basket” Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- κλασμάτων klásma G2801 “fragment” Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter
- πλήρεις plḗrēs G4134 “full” Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine
- ἤρατε aírō G142 “to raise up” Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural
- λέγουσιν légō G3004 “to say” Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural
- αὐτῷ autós G846 “he” Personal pronoun, Dative, Singular, Masculine
- δώδεκα dṓdeka G1427 “twelve” Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable)
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 17
- words
- 16
- distinct lemmas
- Gospels
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is πεντακισχιλίους five thousand G4000 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Greek New Testament.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
πεντακισχιλίους five thousand G4000 occurs in 6 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse:
- τοὺς the G3588 ×2
Cross-references
4Topical passages linked to Mark 8:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Matthew 14:17–21 They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish."
- Mark 6:38–44 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
- Luke 9:12–17 The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place."
- John 6:5–13 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"
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Lesson kit
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Mark, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 17 words (16 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pentakischílioi (“five thousand”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “five thousand” (pentakischílioi) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Matthew 14:21, which shares the word «five thousand», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “the” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 17 words in this verse.
- “the” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 16 distinct Greek lemmas span 17 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Mark 8:19 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1896; 21 vols, various authors incl. Carr, Maclear, Plummer, Farrar, Lumby, Moule, M. R. James, Simcox) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.