Philippians 3:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἴ πως καταντήσω εἰς τὴν ἐξανάστασιν τῶν νεκρῶν.

Transliteration

If somehow katantēsō unto the exanastasin of the nekrōn.

Grammar Details

• *katantēsō*: subjunctive, aorist, active, 1st person singular - I might attain/reach
• *exanastasin*: accusative, feminine, singular - resurrection
• *nekrōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of dead ones

Word Meanings

• *katantēsō*: attain/reach/arrive at
• *exanastasin*: resurrection/rising up [special term different from common *anastasis*]
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses

Referenced Verses

• Luke 20:35-36 : 35 but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
• Acts 26:7 : 7 unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, earnestly serving [God] night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O {G67} king!
• Rev 20:5 : 5 {G1161} The rest of the dead lived not {G326} until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
• 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,
• Heb 11:35 : 35 Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
• John 11:24 : 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
• Acts 23:6 : 6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
• Ps 49:7 : 7 None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him;
• Luke 14:14 : 14 and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not [wherewith] to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.
• Acts 27:12 : 12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised {G1012} to put to sea from thence, if by any means they could reach {G1519} Phoenix, and winter [there; which is] a haven of Crete, looking {G2596} north-east and {G2596} south-east.
• Rom 11:14 : 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy [them that are] my flesh, and may save some of them.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became {G5613} weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
• 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, {G4458} after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, {G3779} your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.
• 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.