Hebrews 10:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took {G3326} joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves {G1722} {G3772} a better possession and an abiding one.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γὰρ τοῖς δεσμοῖς μου συνεπαθήσατε, καὶ τὴν ἁρπαγὴν τῶν ὑπαρχόντων ὑμῶν μετὰ χαρᾶς προσεδέξασθε, γινώσκοντες ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς κρείττονα ὕπαρξιν ἐν οὐρανοῖς καὶ μένουσαν.

Transliteration

For both with the desmois of me you synepathēsate, and the harpagēn of the hyparchontōn of you with charas prosedexasthe, ginōskontes echein in yourselves better hyparxin in ouranois and menousan.

Grammar Details

• *desmois*: dative, masculine, plural - bonds/chains
• *synepathēsate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you sympathized with
• *harpagēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - seizure/plundering
• *hyparchontōn*: present, active, participle, genitive, neuter, plural - possessions/belongings
• *charas*: genitive, feminine, singular - of joy
• *prosedexasthe*: aorist, middle, indicative, 2nd person, plural - you accepted
• *ginōskontes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - knowing
• *echein*: present, active, infinitive - to have
• *hyparxin*: accusative, feminine, singular - possession/property
• *ouranois*: dative, masculine, plural - heavens
• *menousan*: present, active, participle, accusative, feminine, singular - remaining/enduring

Word Meanings

• *desmois*: bonds/chains/imprisonment
• *synepathēsate*: you sympathized with/you suffered with
• *harpagēn*: seizure/plundering/confiscation
• *hyparchontōn*: possessions/belongings/property
• *prosedexasthe*: you accepted/you welcomed/you received
• *hyparxin*: possession/property/substance
• *menousan*: remaining/abiding/enduring

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 1:4 : 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
• Heb 13:3 : 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.
• 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;
• 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 wherein {G1722} I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
• Jas 1:2 : 2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
• 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
• Matt 5:11-12 : 11 Blessed are ye when [men] shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
• Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
• Matt 19:21 : 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
• Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.
• Acts 21:33 : 33 Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who {G302} he was, and what he had done.
• Acts 28:20 : 20 For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with [me]: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,—
• Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
• Eph 6:20 : 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• Phil 1:7 : 7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
• Col 1:5 : 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
• Col 3:2-4 : 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
• 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed.