KJV: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
YLT: and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;
Darby: And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.
ASV: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
συμβούλιον | Counsel |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: συμβούλιον Sense: counsel, which is given, taken, entered upon. |
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λαβόντες | having taken |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: λαμβάνω Sense: to take. |
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ἠγόρασαν | they bought |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: ἀγοράζω Sense: to be in the market place, to attend it. |
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ἀγρὸν | field |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Singular Root: ἀγρός Sense: land. |
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τοῦ | of the |
Parse: Article, Genitive Masculine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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κεραμέως | potter |
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular Root: κεραμεύς Sense: a potter. |
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ταφὴν | a burial place |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: ταφή Sense: burial. |
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τοῖς | for the |
Parse: Article, Dative Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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ξένοις | strangers |
Parse: Adjective, Dative Masculine Plural Root: ξένος Sense: a foreigner, a stranger. |
Greek Commentary for Matthew 27:7
Grotius suggests that it was a small field where potter‘s clay was obtained, like a brickyard (Broadus). Otherwise we do not know why the name exists. In Acts 1:18 we have another account of the death of Judas by bursting open (possibly falling after hanging himself) after he obtained the field by the wages of iniquity. But it is possible that εκτησατο ektēsato there refers to the rabbinical use of Korban, that the money was still that of Judas though he was dead and so he really “acquired” the field by his blood-money. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Matthew 27:7
This quotation comes mainly from Zechariah 11:13 though not in exact language. In Jeremiah 18:18 the prophet tells of a visit to a potter‘s house and in Jeremiah 32:6. of the purchase of a field. It is in Zechariah that the thirty pieces of silver are mentioned. Many theories are offered for the combination of Zechariah and Jeremiah and attributing it all to Jeremiah as in Mark 1:2. the quotation from Isaiah and Malachi is referred wholly to Isaiah as the more prominent of the two. Broadus and McNeile give a full discussion of the various theories from a mere mechanical slip to the one just given above. Matthew has here (Matthew 27:10) “the field of the potter” (εις τον αγρον του κεραμεως eis ton agron tou kerameōs) for “the potter the house of the Lord” in Zechariah 11:13. That makes it more parallel with the language of Matthew 27:7. [source]
See on possess, Luke 18:12. Better, as Rev., obtained. Judas did not purchase the field, but the priests did with the money which he returned to them, (Matthew 27:7). The expression means merely that the field was purchased with the money of Judas. [source]
This Aramaic word Peter explains as “the field of blood.” Two traditions are preserved: one in Matthew 27:7 which explains that the priests purchased this potter‘s field with the money which Judas flung down as the price of the blood of Jesus. The other in Acts describes it as the field of blood because Judas poured out his blood there. Hackett and Knowling argue that both views can be true. “The ill-omened name could be used with a double emphasis” (Hackett). [source]
This question, expecting an affirmative answer, is Paul‘s reply to the previous one, “Why didst thou make me thus?” Πηλος Pēlos old word for clay, is mud or wet clay in John 9:6, John 9:11, John 9:14. The old word for potter (κεραμευς kerameus) in N.T. only here and Matthew 27:7, Matthew 27:10. [source]