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Mark 8:9

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.) Mark 8:9 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.
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Mark 8:9 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/mark/8/9.

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Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now there were about 4,000, and he sent them away.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And about four thousand men were present. As soon as Jesus had dismissed the crowd,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And about four thousand men who had eaten were present. And when Jesus had dismissed the crowd,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    (And they that had eaten, were about foure thousand) so he sent them away.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And they that had eaten were about four thousand; and he sent them away.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and those eating were about four thousand. And he let them away,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and those eating were about four thousand. And He let them away,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    There were about four thousand people. Then he sent them away.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now there were about 4,000, and he sent them away.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And they [that had eaten] were about four thousand; and he sent them away.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he dismissed them.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    There were four thousand people there. After sending them on their way,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And there were about four thousand people: and he sent them away.
  • Text-Critical English NT CC BY 4.0
    There were about four thousand men who had eaten. After sending them away,
  • Tyndale New Testament (1534) Public Domain
    And they that ate were in nomber aboute fowre thousand. And he sent them awaye.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is τετρακισχίλιοι four thousand G5070 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Greek New Testament.

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τετρακισχίλιοι four thousand G5070 occurs in 5 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

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  1. Extra text
    οἱ φαγόντες

    “<the> having eaten of”

    In TregTRByz Not in NA28NA27TynSBLWH

    οἱ φαγόντες (hoi phagontes) ' having eaten of' is only in traditional manuscripts (Treg+TR+Byz)

Textual data: Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible TAGNT) · CC BY 4.0.

Commentary

Notes on Mark 8:9 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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John Gill's Exposition

And they that had eaten were about four thousand,.... That is, men, besides women and children, as Matthew observes; See Gill on Mat 15:38.

and he sent them away; some that came dumb, with their speech, and deaf, with their hearing; others that were maimed, with perfect healing of their wounds, and with their limbs sound and whole; others that came lame, he dismissed leaping; and others that were blind, with their sight restored to them, and all of them full.

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

9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

Ver. 9. {See Trapp on "Mat 15:38"}

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

St. Matthew (xv. 38.) adds, without counting either the women or the children.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges

9. [1631][1632][1633][1634] omit οἱ φαγόντες.

[1631] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[1632] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mar 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[1633] Codex Regius. 8th cent. An important witness. At Paris. Contains Mar 1:1 to Mar 10:15; Mar 10:30 to Mar 15:1; Mar 15:20 to Mar 16:20, but the shorter ending is inserted between Mar 16:8 and Mar 16:9, showing that the scribe preferred it to the longer one.

[1634] Codex Sangallensis. 9th or 10th cent. Contains the Gospels nearly complete, with an interlinear Latin translation. The text of Mark is specially good, agreeing often with CL. At St Gall.

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.

International Critical Commentary

9. ἦσαν δὲ ὡς τετρακισχίλιοι—and they were about four thousand.

Omit οἱ φάγοντες, those eating, Tisch. (Treg.) WH. RV. א BL Δ 33, Memph.

JESUS CROSSES TO THE WEST SHORE OF THE LAKE TO DALMANUTHA, AND THE PHARISEES RENEW THEIR ATTACK ON HIM, DEMANDING A SIGN FROM HEAVEN

International Critical Commentary — older volumes (1896–1929), various authors — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament

Marvin R. Vincent

Baskets. See on Mt 14:20.

Four thousand. Matthew (xv. 38) here adds a detail which we should rather expect in Mark : beside women and children.

Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

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Mark, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tetrakischílioi (“four thousand”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word tetrakischílioi carries the sense “four thousand.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Matthew 15:38 shares the word «four thousand» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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