STRONGS G1438:
ἑαυτοῦ,
-ῆς,
-οῦ, etc. or (contracted)
αὑτοῦ,
-ῆς,
-οῦ (see p. 87); plural
ἑαυτῶν; dative
-οῖς,
-αῖς,
-οῖς, etc.; reflexive pronoun of the 3rd person. It is used:
1. of the 3rd person singular and plural, to denote that the agent and the person acted on are the same; as,
σώζειν ἑαυτόν,
Matthew 27:42;
Mark 15:31;
Luke 23:35;
ὑψοῦν ἑαυτόν,
Matthew 23:12, etc.
ἑαυτῷ,
ἑαυτόν are also often added to middle verbs:
διεμερίσαντο ἑαυτοῖς,
John 19:24 (Xenophon, mem. 1, 6, 13
ποιεῖσθαι ἑαυτῷ φίλον); cf. Winers Grammar, § 38, 6; [Buttmann, § 135, 6]. Of the phrases into which this pronoun enters we notice the following:
ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ, see
ἀπό, II. 2 d. aa.;
δἰ ἑαυτοῦ,
of itself, i. e. in its own nature,
Romans 14:14 [Tr L text read
αὐτ.];
ἐν ἑαυτῷ, see in
διαλογίζεσθαι,
λέγειν,
εἰπεῖν.
εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἔρχεσθαι to come to oneself, to a better mind,
Luke 15:17 (Diodorus 13, 95).
καθ’ ἑαυτόν,
by oneself, alone:
Acts 28:16;
James 2:17.
παρ’ ἑαυτῷ, by him,
i. e. at his home, 1 Corinthians 16:2 (Xenophon, mem. 3, 13, 3).
πρὸς ἑαυτόν, to himself
i. e. to his home, Luke 24:12 [R G; T omits, WH (but with
αὑτ.) reject, L Tr (but the latter with
αὐτ.) brackets, the verse];
John 20:10 [T Tr αὐτ. (see
αὑτοῦ)];
with [cf. our
to]
himself, i. e. in his own mind, προσεύχεσθαι,
Luke 18:11 [
Tdf. omits], (2 Macc. 11:13); in the genitive, joined with a noun, it has the force of a possessive pronoun, as
τοὺς ἑαυτῶν νεκρούς:
Matthew 8:22;
Luke 9:60.
2. It serves as reflexive also to the 1st and 2nd person, as often in classic Greek, when no ambiguity is thereby occasioned; thus,
ἐν ἑαυτοῖς equivalent to
ἐν ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς,
Romans 8:23;
ἑαυτούς equivalent to
ἡμᾶς αὐτούς,
1 Corinthians 11:31;
ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ equivalent to
ἀπὸ σεαυτοῦ [read by
L Tr WH], John 18:34;
ἑαυτόν equivalent to
σεαυτόν [read by
L T Tr WH], Romans 13:9;
ἑαυτοῖς for
ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς,
Matthew 23:31, etc.; cf. Matthiae, § 489 II.; Winers Grammar, § 22, 5; [Buttmann, § 127, 15].
3. It is used frequently in the plural for the reciprocal pronoun
ἀλλήλων,
ἀλλήλοις,
ἀλλήλους,
reciprocally, mutually, one another:
Matthew 16:7;
Matthew 21:38;
Mark 10:26 [Tr marginal reading WH
αὐτόν];
Mark 16:3;
Luke 20:5;
Ephesians 4:32;
Colossians 3:13,
16;
1 Peter 4:8,
10; see Matthiae § 489 III.; Kühner, ii., p. 497f; Bernhardy (1829), p. 273; [Bp. Lightfoot on
Colossians 3:13].
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