1 Corinthians 14:10 BSB

1 Corinthians 14:10

Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

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Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

KJV

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

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Commentary

2 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on 1 Corinthians (1107)

That is, so many languages appeared in the world—Scythian, Indian, Thracian, and those of other peoples—and all tribes say something, for they are not without language.

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices,.... לשנא, "tongues", or "languages", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them, as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at Babel; there may be more or less: and none of them is without signification: every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice ordinarily speaking.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τοσαῦτα,	tosauta	So many	G5118 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
τύχοι,	tuchoi	it would be	G5177 →
γένη	genē	kinds	G1085 →
φωνῶν	phōnōn	of languages	G5456 →
εἰσιν	eisin	there are	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
κόσμῳ,	kosmō	[the] world,	G2889 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οὐδὲν	ouden	none	G3762 →
ἄφωνον·	aphōnon	without meaning;	G880 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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