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Luke 15:16
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14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the1 pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.  
17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, aI have sinned against heaven and before you,  
19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
20 “And he arose and came to his father. But awhen he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.  
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Luke 15:16

He would fain have been filled (epequmei xortasqhnai). Literally, he was desiring (longing) to be filled. Imperfect indicative and first aorist passive infinitive. Xortasqhnai is from xortazw and that from xortov (grass), and so to feed with grass or with anything. Westcott and Hort put gemisai thn koilian autou in the margin (the Textus Receptus).

With the husks (ek twn keratiwn). The word occurs here alone in the N.T. and is a diminutive of kerav (horn) and so means little horn. It is used in various senses, but here refers to the pods of the carob tree or locust tree still common in Palestine and around the Mediterannean, so called from the shape of the pods like little horns, Bockshornbaum in German or goat's-horn tree. The gelatinous substance inside has a sweetish taste and is used for feeding swine and even for food by the lower classes. It is sometimes called Saint John's Bread from the notion that the Baptist ate it in the wilderness.

No man gave unto him (oudeiv edidou autw). Imperfect active. Continued refusal of anyone to allow him even the food of the hogs.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 15:16:

Luke 6:21
Luke 15:11
Luke 16:21

 

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