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Matthew 5

Matt. 5:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Blessed
makarios (Greek #3107)
supremely blest; by extension, fortunate, well off
KJV usage: blessed, happy(X -ier).
Pronounce: mak-ar'-ee-os
Origin: a prolonged form of the poetical μάκαρ (meaning the same)
are they that mourn
pentheo (Greek #3996)
to grieve (the feeling or the act)
KJV usage: mourn, (be-)wail.
Pronounce: pen-theh'-o
Origin: from 3997
m: for
hoti (Greek #3754)
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
KJV usage: as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
Pronounce: hot'-ee
Origin: neuter of 3748 as conjunction
they
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
shall be comforted
parakaleo (Greek #3870)
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
KJV usage: beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray.
Pronounce: par-ak-al-eh'-o
Origin: from 3844 and 2564
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ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
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Psa. 6:1‑9• 1To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.
2Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
3And my soul trembleth exceedingly: and thou, Jehovah, till how long?
4Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.
5For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?
6I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
7Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.
8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
9Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah receiveth my prayer.
(Psa. 6:1‑9)
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Psa. 13:1‑5• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! lest mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.
5As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart shall be joyful in thy salvation.
(Psa. 13:1‑5)
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Psa. 30:7‑11• 7Jehovah, by thy favour thou hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
8I called to thee, Jehovah, and unto the Lord did I make supplication:
9What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
10Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious unto me; Jehovah, be my helper.
11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
(Psa. 30:7‑11)
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Psa. 32:3‑7• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.
7Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
(Psa. 32:3‑7)
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Psa. 40:1‑3• 1To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm. I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:
3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah.
(Psa. 40:1‑3)
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Psa. 69:29‑30• 29But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me secure on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving;
(Psa. 69:29‑30)
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Psa. 116:3‑7• 3The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
4Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: I beseech thee, Jehovah, deliver my soul.
5Gracious is Jehovah and righteous; and our God is merciful.
6Jehovah keepeth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.
7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
(Psa. 116:3‑7)
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Psa. 126:5‑6• 5They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:
6He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.
(Psa. 126:5‑6)
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Isa. 12:1• 1And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. (Isa. 12:1)
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Isa. 25:8• 8He will swallow up death in victory. And the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken. (Isa. 25:8)
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Isa. 30:19• 19For the people shall dwell in Zion, at Jerusalem. Thou shalt weep no more; he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; as he heareth it, he will answer thee. (Isa. 30:19)
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Isa. 35:10• 10And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isa. 35:10)
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Isa. 38:14‑19• 14Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.
17Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
(Isa. 38:14‑19)
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Isa. 51:11‑12• 11So the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou fearest a man that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass;
(Isa. 51:11‑12)
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Isa. 57:18• 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him; and I will lead him, and will restore comforts unto him and to those of his that mourn. (Isa. 57:18)
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Isa. 61:2‑3• 2to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.
(Isa. 61:2‑3)
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Isa. 66:10• 10Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her; rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her: (Isa. 66:10)
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Jer. 31:9‑12,16‑17• 9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye nations, and declare it to the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd his flock.
11For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
12And they shall come and sing aloud upon the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of Jehovah, for corn, and for new wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not languish any more at all.
16Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.
(Jer. 31:9‑12,16‑17)
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Ezek. 7:16• 16And they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for his iniquity. (Ezek. 7:16)
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Ezek. 9:4• 4and Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof. (Ezek. 9:4)
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Zech. 12:10‑14• 10And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
(Zech. 12:10‑14)
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Zech. 13:1• 1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (Zech. 13:1)
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Luke 6:21,25• 21Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.
25Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.
(Luke 6:21,25)
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Luke 7:38,50• 38and standing at his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the myrrh.
50And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee; go in peace.
(Luke 7:38,50)
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Luke 16:25• 25But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering. (Luke 16:25)
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John 16:20‑22• 20Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.
21A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.
22And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.
(John 16:20‑22)
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2 Cor. 1:4‑7• 4who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.
5Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.
6But whether we are in tribulation, it is for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which *we* also suffer,
7(and our hope for you is sure;) or whether we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.
(2 Cor. 1:4‑7)
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2 Cor. 7:9‑10• 9Now I rejoice, not that ye have been grieved, but that ye have been grieved to repentance; for ye have been grieved according to God, that in nothing ye might be injured by us.
10For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death.
(2 Cor. 7:9‑10)
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James 1:12• 12Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him. (James 1:12)
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Rev. 7:14‑17• 14And I said to him, My lord, *thou* knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.
16They shall not hunger any more, neither shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun at all fall on them, nor any burning heat;
17because the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall shepherd them, and shall lead them to fountains of waters of life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
(Rev. 7:14‑17)
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Rev. 21:4• 4And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor distress shall exist any more, for the former things have passed away. (Rev. 21:4)
 But "blessed are they that mourn" is not merely what we find in our own condition, but the holy sorrow that a saint tastes in finding himself in such a world as this, and, oh, how little able to maintain the glory of God! (Remarks on Matthew 5:1-17 by W. Kelly)
 "Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves." Here, then, we have the sorrowing of the godly soul. (Remarks on Matthew 5:1-17 by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted.

W. Kelly Translation

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Blessed they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.