Hebrews 3:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη. ⋄Διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ εἶπον, Ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ· αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου.

Transliteration

tessarakonta etē. Dio prosōchthisa the genea ekeinē, and eipon, Aei planōntai the kardia; autoi de not egnōsan the hodous of me.

Grammar Details

*tessarakonta*: numeral - forty
*etē*: accusative, neuter, plural - years
*Dio*: conjunction - therefore/for this reason
*prosōchthisa*: aorist indicative, 1st person singular - I was displeased/angry
*genea*: dative, feminine, singular - generation
*ekeinē*: demonstrative pronoun, dative, feminine, singular - that
*eipon*: aorist indicative, 1st person singular - I said
*Aei*: adverb - always/continually
*planōntai*: present passive indicative, 3rd person plural - they are led astray/wander
*kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
*autoi*: personal pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural - they
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
*egnōsan*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural - they knew
*hodous*: accusative, feminine, plural - ways/roads/paths

Word Meanings

*etē*: years/periods of time
*Dio*: therefore/for this reason/wherefore
*prosōchthisa*: was angry with/was displeased with/was provoked
*genea*: generation/age/race
*eipon*: said/spoke/declared
*Aei*: always/continually/constantly
*planōntai*: go astray/wander/are deceived
*kardia*: heart/mind/inner self
*egnōsan*: knew/understood/recognized
*hodous*: ways/paths/roads/manner of life

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Referenced Verses

Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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:
Eph 4:30 : 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
Gen 6:6 : 6 And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Ps 67:2 : 2 That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy salvation among all nations.
Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
Ps 147:20 : 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
Isa 28:7 : 7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.
Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.
Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.
John 3:19-20 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
John 8:45 : 45 But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.
Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Rom 3:7 : 7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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