Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

Matthew 9:36

Fainted [η σ α ν ε σ κ υ λ μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev., better, were distressed. Note the verb with the participle, denoting their habitual condition. The word originally means to flay, rend, or mangle. Aeschylus uses it of the tearing of dead bodies by fish (" Persae, " 577). As appropriate to the figure of sheep, it might be rendered here fleeced. Wyc., they were travailed.

Scattered [ε ρ ρ ι μ μ ε ν ο ι]. So A. V. and Rev. The word is the perfect participle passive of rJiptw, to throw or cast, and means thrown down, prostrated. So Wyc., lying. It is not the dispersion one from another, but their prostration in themselves that is meant. They have cast themselves down for very weariness.

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Matthew 9:36

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