ἔσται (estai) in Revelation 22:3: Verb Third Person Singular Future Middle Deponent Indicative
ἔσται (estai) in Revelation 22:3
Textual Witness
The witness reads ἔσται in Revelation 22:3 within the textus receptus tradition of the cited edition.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form strengthens the verse's promise by stating that the throne will be there, while also supporting the contrast that curse will no longer be present.
How To Communicate It
In teaching or translation, this form can be rendered naturally as will be or will exist, with the sense guided by the clause and not by grammar alone.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Future indicative here signals the verse's forward-looking statement, but it does not by itself settle every theological or eschatological question.
- Verb morphology should support careful reading, yet the surrounding clause and passage remain the primary guide to meaning.
What Does The Label Mean?
Verb: the form names an action or state of being, here from εἰμί, and it can function as a simple copula or existential verb depending on context.
Future: points the action forward from the speaker's viewpoint, while the sentence controls the exact sense.
Middle Deponent: uses a middle or passive form traditionally read with active sense. The lexeme and sentence still govern the meaning.
Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion or statement in the clause.
Third person: the form speaks about someone or something rather than directly as I/we or you.
Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.
Singular: the form is singular and here agrees with a singular subject in the clause, so it points to one stated subject without adding more.
Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.
What The Form Does In This Verse
It is attached to the clause about the throne, ὁ θρόνος ... ἔσται.
It is governed by the singular subject ὁ θρόνος τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀρνίου, so the verb states what will be true of that throne in the scene.
The verb serves as the future assertion that the throne will be present or established in the city, and the same form also carries the negated contrast earlier in the verse with πᾶν κατανάθεμα οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι.
It does not by itself identify a new subject, add a separate action, or force a symbolic reading beyond what the sentence already says.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The future existential statement helps frame the promised absence of curse and the presence of God's throne in the final scene.
Future middle deponent indicative. states what will or will not be present in the described scene. Attached to the statements about curse and the throne. Governed by the subjects in the surrounding clauses. The verse's nouns and negatives determine whether the verb expresses absence or presence.
What will be true in the scene? Curse will no longer be present, and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be there.
Direct: The form directly supports will be, will exist, or will be present, depending on the clause.
Middle deponent labeling for eimi should not be used to infer agency or self-involvement. Future form supports the promised state, but the imagery and theology are governed by the whole scene. The same verb form can serve absence or presence depending on its subject and negative particle.
Future tense alone settles every eschatological detail: The form supports the future description; the passage supplies the theological shape. deponent voice creates a hidden agency claim: The morphology label should not add agency to a simple being verb.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads ἔσται in Revelation 22:3 within the textus receptus tradition of the cited edition.
The lemma εἰμί normally means to be or exist, and here the form keeps that basic identity rather than changing the word into another concept.
In context the future singular form fits a statement about what will be true: no curse will remain, and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be there.
The verse portrays a future order in which curse is absent and God's rule, shared with the Lamb, is established and present among the people.
This use of εἰμί fits the wider biblical pattern of stating presence, existence, and coming fulfillment, especially in scenes that describe God's reign.
For communication, the form helps readers hear assurance and certainty about the coming state of the scene rather than a mere possibility.
Do not derive extra detail from future tense alone, do not make the verb prove timing beyond the verse, and do not make grammatical form override the surrounding statement.