Mark 12:1
And Jesus began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and delved a pit, and builded a tower, and hired it to earth-tillers, and went forth in pilgrimage.This verse in the real world
In what words
- ὑπολήνιονhypolḗnionvessel or receptacle under the press, i.e. lower wine-vat
- ὀρύσσωorýssōto "burrow" in the ground, i.e. dig
- φραγμόςphragmósa fence, or inclosing barrier (literally or figuratively)
- ἐκδίδωμιekdídōmito give forth, i.e. (specially) to lease
- πύργοςpýrgosa tower or castle
- περιτίθημιperitíthēmito place around; by implication, to present
- φυτεύωphyteúōto set out in the earth, i.e. implant; figuratively, to instil doctrine
- γεωργόςgeōrgósa land-worker, i.e. farmer
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Isa 5:1–4, Mrk 13:34, Sng 8:11–12, Mrk 4:2, Rom 11:17–24, Mat 25:14, Psa 80:8–16, Mrk 4:33–34