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  • Luke 15:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 16 And he longed to be filled with the carob pods that the swine were eating, but no one would give him anything.

  • Luke 15:16
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 16 καὶ and ἐπεθύμει he was desiring χορτασθῆναι to be satiated ἐκ out of τῶν the κερατίων little horns ὧν of which ἤσθιον were eating οἱ the χοῖροι, pigs, καὶ and οὐδεὶς no one ἐδίδου was giving αὐτῷ. to him.

  • Luke 15:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 16 And he used to desire to be filled with the carob pods which the swine were eating, and no one would give him [anything].+

  • Luke 15:16
    The Bible in Living English
    • 16* And he was wishing he could fill his stomach with the pods that the hogs ate, and nobody gave him anything.

  • Luke 15:16
    American Standard Version
    • 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

  • Luke 15:16
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 16 And he used to long to be filled with the pods which the swine were eating; and no man was giving unto him.

  • Luke 15:16
    King James Version
    • 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

  • Luke
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
    • 15:16 it-1 420-421; it-2 1049; jy 201; w98 10/1 10-11; gt chapter 86; w89 2/1 8

  • Luke
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 15:16 ad 301; w65 487; w63 422; g63 2/22 25; w51 223; w43 330

  • Luke
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 15:16

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 420-421

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 1049

      Jesus—The Way, p. 201

      The Watchtower,

      10/1/1998, pp. 9-11

      2/1/1989, p. 8

  • Luke Study Notes—Chapter 15
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 15:16

      carob pods: The fruit or pods of the carob have a shiny, leathery shell of a purplish-brown color and, in harmony with the literal meaning of their name in Greek (ke·raʹti·on, “small horn”), have a curved horn shape. Carob pods are widely used till this day as food for horses, cattle, and pigs. The degradation to which the young man had sunk was accentuated by his willingness even to eat the food of swine.​—See study note on Lu 15:15.

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