Hebrews 12:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν ὄρει, καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ, καὶ μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων, ⋄Πανηγύρει

Transliteration

But you have proselēlythate Siōn orei, and polei Theou zōntos, Ierousalēm epouraniō, and myriasin angelōn, Panēgyrei

Grammar Details

• *proselēlythate*: verb, perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have come to/approached
• *Siōn*: proper noun, dative, singular, feminine - to Zion
• *orei*: noun, dative, singular, neuter - to mountain
• *polei*: noun, dative, singular, feminine - to city
• *Theou*: noun, genitive, singular, masculine - of God
• *zōntos*: participle, present active, genitive, singular, masculine - living
• *Ierousalēm*: proper noun, dative, singular, feminine - to Jerusalem
• *epouraniō*: adjective, dative, singular, feminine - heavenly
• *myriasin*: noun, dative, plural, feminine - to myriads/tens of thousands
• *angelōn*: noun, genitive, plural, masculine - of angels
• *Panēgyrei*: noun, dative, singular, feminine - to festive assembly/general assembly

Word Meanings

• *proselēlythate*: you have come to/approached/drawn near to
• *zōntos*: living/alive/life-giving
• *epouraniō*: heavenly/celestial/in heaven
• *myriasin*: myriads/tens of thousands/countless numbers
• *Panēgyrei*: festive assembly/general assembly/festal gathering

Referenced Verses

• Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is {G3956} our mother.
• Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; {G1537} whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Ps 48:2 : 2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
• Rev 14:1 : 1 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
• Rev 21:2 : 2 And I {G2491} saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
• 2 Kgs 19:4 : 4 It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
• Jude 1:14 : 14 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
• Rev 21:10 : 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the {G3173} holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
• Rev 22:19 : 19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
• Rev 3:12 : 12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no {G3361} more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
• Rev 5:11-12 : 11 And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might and honor, and glory, and blessing.
• Rev 7:2 : 2 And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, {G2246} having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
• Ps 2:6 : 6 Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Deut 5:26 : 26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
• 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.
• Josh 3:10 : 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
• 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
• Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 10:31 : 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• Heb 11:10 : 10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• Heb 13:14 : 14 For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.
• Ps 68:17 : 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, [as in] Sinai, in the sanctuary.
• Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
• Ps 87:3 : 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. {H5542}
• Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my resting-place for ever: Here will I dwell; For I have desired it.
• Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 14:32 : 32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
• Isa 28:16 : 16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious [corner-] [stone] of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.
• Isa 51:11 : 11 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Isa 51:16 : 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
• Isa 59:20 : 20 And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.
• Isa 60:14 : 14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• Jer 10:10 : 10 But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
• Dan 6:26 : 26 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, And his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
• Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
• 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.
• Joel 2:32 : 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.
• Matt 5:35 : 35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
• Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Rom 9:26 : 26 And it shall be, [that] in the place {G3757} where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.
• Rom 11:26 : 26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; {G2532} He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
• Ps 42:2 : 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?