Hebrews 3:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τίνες γὰρ, ἀκούσαντες, παρεπίκραναν: ἀλλʼ οὐ πάντες οἱ ἐξελθόντες ἐξ Αἰγύπτου διὰ Μωϋσέως.

Transliteration

Tines gar, akousantes, parepikranan: all' not pantes the ones exelthontes from Aigyptou dia Mōyseōs.

Grammar Details

*Tines*: interrogative pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural - who?/which ones?
*gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
*akousantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having heard
*parepikranan*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural - they provoked/rebelled
*all'*: adversative conjunction - but
*pantes*: nominative, masculine, plural - all
*exelthontes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having gone out/departed
*Aigyptou*: genitive, feminine, singular - of Egypt
*dia*: preposition + genitive - through/by means of
*Mōyseōs*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Moses

Word Meanings

*Tines*: who?/which ones?/who were they?
*akousantes*: having heard/when they heard
*parepikranan*: provoked/rebelled/embittered
*pantes*: all/everyone/the whole group
*exelthontes*: having gone out/departed/having exited
*dia*: through/by means of/with the help of

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Referenced Verses

Num 14:2 : 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Num 14:30 : 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deut 1:38 : 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Num 14:24 : 24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Num 14:4 : 4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Josh 14:7-9 : 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy foot hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee and to thy children for ever, because thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my God. 10 And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
Ps 78:17 : 17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Rom 11:4-5 : 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Heb 3:9-9 : 9 Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;
Num 14:38 : 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
Num 26:65 : 65 For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deut 1:35-36 : 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah.

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