Hebrews 12:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὗ ἡ φωνὴ τὴν γῆν ἐσάλευσεν τότε: νῦν δὲ ἐπήγγελται, λέγων, Ἔτι ἅπαξ ἐγὼ σείω οὐ μόνον τὴν γῆν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν οὐρανόν.

Transliteration

Whose phōnē the gēn esaleusen then: now but he has epēngeltai, legōn, Yet hapax egō seiō not only the gēn, but also the ouranon.

Grammar Details

*phōnē*: noun, nominative, singular, feminine - voice
*gēn*: noun, accusative, singular, feminine - earth
*esaleusen*: verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - shook
*epēngeltai*: verb, perfect middle/passive indicative, 3rd person singular - has promised
*legōn*: participle, present active, nominative, singular, masculine - saying
*hapax*: adverb - once
*egō*: personal pronoun, nominative, singular - I
*seiō*: verb, present active indicative, 1st person singular - shake
*ouranon*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - heaven

Word Meanings

*esaleusen*: shook/caused to tremble/made to quake
*epēngeltai*: has promised/pledged/announced
*seiō*: shake/cause to tremble/agitate

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Referenced Verses

Exod 19:18 : 18 And 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.
Ps 114:6-7 : 6 Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
Isa 2:19 : 19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
Isa 13:13 : 13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Joel 3:16 : 16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
Hab 3:10 : 10 The mountains saw thee, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, And lifted up its hands on high.
Hag 2:6-7 : 6 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 7 and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Hag 2:22 : 22 and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Heb 12:27 : 27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.

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