Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageElijah was a human being with the same nature and frailties as us, and he prayed with burning intensity that it would not rain — and no rain fell on the earth for three and a half years.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GEliyahu was a man of the same passions as us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain — and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
KJV
King James VersionElias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleElijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Footnotes
ὁμοιοπαθής (homoiopathēs, "of like passions/nature") does not refer to moral weakness but to shared human constitution — vulnerability, feeling, limitation. προσευχῇ προσηύξατο ("he prayed with prayer") is a Hebraism using a cognate dative to intensify the verb — the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew infinitive absolute — meaning he prayed with the full force of his being. The three-and-a-half-year figure does not match the LXX of 1 Kings 18:1 ("the third year") but aligns with Luke 4:25 and Revelation 11–12, suggesting a typological pattern of prophetic suffering under divine silence.
