Matthew 19:5 - Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

Matthew 19:5

3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who¹ made them at the beginning ^a‘made them male and female,’

5 and said, ^a‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and ^bthe two shall become one flesh’?

6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

7 They said to Him, ^a“Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the ^ahardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your ^bwives, but from the beginning it was not so.

9 ^aAnd I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for¹ sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

10 His disciples said to Him, ^a“If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

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Matthew 19:5

Shall cleave (kollhqhsetai). First future passive, "shall be glued to," the verb means.

The twain shall become one flesh (esontai oi duo eiv sarka mian). This use of eiv after eimi is an imitation of the Hebrew, though a few examples occur in the older Greek and in the papyri. The frequency of it is due to the Hebrew and here the LXX is a direct translation of the Hebrew idiom.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 19:5:

Mark 10:4
Acts 9:26
1 Corinthians 6:16
1 Corinthians 7:10
Ephesians 5:31
Hebrews 1:5
2 Peter 3:16

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