Hebrews 13:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ γὰρ ἔχομεν ὧδε μένουσαν πόλιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν μέλλουσαν ἐπιζητοῦμεν.

Transliteration

Ou gar we echomen here menousan polin, alla the mellousan we epizētoumen.

Grammar Details

• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *echomen*: present, active, indicative, 1st person, plural - we have
• *menousan*: present, active, participle, accusative, feminine, singular - remaining/abiding
• *polin*: accusative, feminine, singular - city
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *mellousan*: present, active, participle, accusative, feminine, singular - coming/about to be
• *epizētoumen*: present, active, indicative, 1st person, plural - we seek eagerly

Word Meanings

• *menousan*: remaining/abiding/lasting/permanent
• *polin*: city/town/urban center
• *mellousan*: coming/about to be/future
• *epizētoumen*: seek eagerly/search for/desire earnestly

Referenced Verses

• Phil 3:20 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; {G1537} whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Heb 12:22 : 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
• Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroyeth, even with a grievous destruction.
• 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
• 2 Cor 4:17-5:8 : 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 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. 2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven: 3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who {G2532} gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight); 8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Eph 2:19 : 19 So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
• Col 3:1-3 : 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 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.
• Heb 4:9 : 9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
• Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• Heb 11:12-16 : 12 wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the {G2281} sea-shore, innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own. 15 And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had {G302} opportunity to return. 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.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
• 2 Pet 3:13-14 : 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein {G3739} dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.