Hebrews 10:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀθετήσας τις νόμον Μωϋσέως χωρὶς οἰκτιρμῶν ἐπὶ δυσὶν ἢ τρισὶν μάρτυσιν ἀποθνῄσκει:

Transliteration

Athetēsas anyone nomon Mōuseōs without oiktirmōn upon dysin or trisin martyrsin apothnēskei:

Grammar Details

• *Athetēsas*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having rejected
• *nomon*: accusative, masculine, singular - law
• *Mōuseōs*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Moses
• *oiktirmōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of compassions/mercies
• *dysin*: dative, masculine/feminine, plural - two
• *trisin*: dative, masculine/feminine, plural - three
• *martyrsin*: dative, masculine, plural - witnesses
• *apothnēskei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - dies

Word Meanings

• *Athetēsas*: having rejected/having set aside/having violated
• *oiktirmōn*: mercies/compassions/pity
• *apothnēskei*: dies/is put to death

Referenced Verses

• Heb 2:2 : 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
• Matt 18:16 : 16 But if he hear you not, take with you one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.
• John 8:17 : 17 Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true.
• Deut 19:15 : 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
• 2 Sam 12:9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
• 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
• Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
• Num 15:30-31 : 30 But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
• Num 15:36 : 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
• Deut 13:6-9 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, that is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7 of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near unto you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 you shall not consent unto him, nor listen unto him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Deut 17:2-9 : 2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel, 5 then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee. 8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose; 9 and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. 10 And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee: 11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
• Deut 19:13 : 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
• Rom 9:15 : 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
• 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: {G2532} mercy glorieth against judgment.