Hebrews 12:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

(Οὐκ ἔφερον γὰρ τὸ διαστελλόμενον, Κἂν θηρίον θίγῃ τοῦ ὄρους, λιθοβοληθήσεται, ἢ βολίδι κατατοξευθήσεται:

Transliteration

(Not they epheron for the diastellomenon, Even if thērion thigē the orous, it shall be lithobolēthēsetai, or with bolidi katatoxeuthēsetai:

Grammar Details

*epheron*: verb, imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural - they were bearing/enduring
*diastellomenon*: participle, present passive, accusative, singular, neuter - being commanded/ordered
*thērion*: noun, nominative, singular, neuter - wild animal/beast
*thigē*: verb, aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person singular - touches/contacts
*orous*: noun, genitive, singular, neuter - of mountain
*lithobolēthēsetai*: verb, future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - will be stoned
*bolidi*: noun, dative, singular, feminine - with dart/javelin
*katatoxeuthēsetai*: verb, future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - will be shot through

Word Meanings

*epheron*: they were bearing/enduring/supporting/tolerating
*diastellomenon*: being commanded/ordered/charged
*thērion*: wild animal/beast/creature
*katatoxeuthēsetai*: will be shot through/pierced with arrows

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Referenced Verses

Exod 19:12-13 : 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13 no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exod 19:16 : 16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
Deut 33:2 : 2 And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Heb 12:18-19
2 verses
81%
18For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;
Heb 12:21
79%
21and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:
Exod 19:12-13
2 verses
79%
12And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
13no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exod 20:18-19
2 verses
75%
18And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
19And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Exod 19:21-24
4 verses
74%
21And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.
22And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them.
23And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
24And Jehovah said unto him, Go, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them.
Exod 34:3
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3And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
Num 4:20
71%
20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.
Deut 18:16
71%
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Num 14:10-11
2 verses
71%
10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
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Exod 19:16-18
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71%
16And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Heb 11:37-38
2 verses
70%
37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in {G122} goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
Deut 4:11-12
2 verses
70%
11And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
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Deut 9:8
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Exod 17:4
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4And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, What shall I do unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
Heb 3:17-19
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17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but {G3361} to them that were disobedient?
19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
1 Cor 10:5
69%
5Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Deut 1:43
69%
43So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
Num 14:22
69%
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Deut 5:22
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Exod 24:17
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17And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exod 32:19-20
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19And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
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Heb 10:28
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Num 16:21
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Josh 22:18
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Exod 33:5
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2 Kgs 18:12
69%
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Ps 78:40
69%
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Lev 24:23
68%
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Num 16:45
68%
45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Neh 9:18
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Heb 12:25
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Deut 9:22
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Exod 32:8
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