Hebrews 11:12

American Standard Version (1901)

wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ καὶ ἀφʼ ἑνὸς ἐγεννήθησαν, καὶ ταῦτα νενεκρωμένου, καθὼς τὰ ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῷ πλήθει, καὶ ὡσ ἡ ἄμμος ἡ παρὰ τὸ χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης ἡ ἀναρίθμητος.

Transliteration

Dio also from henos egennēthēsan, and this one having been nenekrōmenou, as the astra of the ouranou in the plēthei, and as the ammos para the cheilos of the thalassēs the anarithmētos.

Grammar Details

• *Dio*: conjunction - therefore/for this reason
• *henos*: cardinal numeral, genitive, masculine, singular - one
• *egennēthēsan*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd plural - were born/begotten
• *nenekrōmenou*: perfect passive participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having been dead/deadened
• *astra*: nominative, neuter, plural - stars
• *ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of heaven/sky
• *plēthei*: dative, neuter, singular - in multitude
• *ammos*: nominative, feminine, singular - sand
• *para*: preposition + accusative - beside/by/near
• *cheilos*: accusative, neuter, singular - shore/lip/rim
• *thalassēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of sea
• *anarithmētos*: nominative, feminine, singular - innumerable/countless

Word Meanings

• *Dio*: therefore/for this reason/wherefore
• *egennēthēsan*: were born/begotten/brought forth
• *nenekrōmenou*: having been dead/deadened/impotent
• *astra*: stars/constellations
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky/firmament
• *plēthei*: multitude/number/fullness
• *ammos*: sand/seashore
• *cheilos*: shore/lip/rim/edge
• *thalassēs*: sea/ocean
• *anarithmētos*: innumerable/countless/numberless

Referenced Verses

• Gen 22:17 : 17 that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
• Gen 32:12 : 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
• Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
• Isa 10:22 : 22 For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.
• Isa 48:19 : 19 thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
• Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
• Rom 9:27 : 27 And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
• Rev 20:8 : 8 and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
• Exod 32:13 : 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
• Deut 1:10 : 10 Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
• Deut 28:62 : 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
• Josh 11:4 : 4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
• Judg 7:12 : 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.
• 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 And he said unto them, Jehovah is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. And they said, He is witness.
• 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
• 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
• 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
• Neh 9:23 : 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
• Rom 4:17-19 : 17 (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were. 18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;