Hebrews 5:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μετριοπαθεῖν δυνάμενος τοῖς ἀγνοοῦσιν καὶ πλανωμένοις·, ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτὸς περίκειται ἀσθένειαν.

Transliteration

To metriopathein dynamenos with the ones agnoousin and planōmenois, epei also autos perikeitai astheneian.

Grammar Details

• *metriopathein*: present active infinitive - to deal gently/to moderate one's feelings
• *dynamenos*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - being able
• *tois agnoousin*: dative, masculine, plural with article + present active participle - to those being ignorant
• *kai*: adverb - also
• *planōmenois*: present middle/passive participle, dative, masculine, plural - going astray/being led astray
• *epei*: conjunction - since/because
• *autos*: intensive pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - himself
• *perikeitai*: present middle indicative, 3rd singular - is surrounded by/is encompassed with
• *astheneian*: accusative, feminine, singular - weakness/infirmity

Word Meanings

• *metriopathein*: to deal gently/to moderate feelings/to feel compassion in proper measure
• *agnoousin*: being ignorant/not knowing/erring unintentionally
• *planōmenois*: being led astray/wandering/going off course
• *perikeitai*: is surrounded by/wears/has around him
• *astheneian*: weakness/infirmity/frailty

Referenced Verses

• Heb 2:18 : 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
• Heb 7:28 : 28 For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore.
• Heb 4:15 : 15 For we have not a high priest that {G1410} cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted {G3987} like as [we are, yet] without sin.
• Heb 12:13 : 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
• Gal 4:13 : 13 but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
• 2 Cor 12:5 : 5 On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save {G3361} in [my] weaknesses.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• Exod 32:2-5 : 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 [And when Aaron] [saw] [this], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.
• Exod 32:8 : 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Exod 32:21-24 : 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are [set] on evil. 23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
• Num 12:1-9 : 1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 And they said, Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? hath he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth. 4 And Jehovah spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting. And they three came out. 5 And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. 6 And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Jehovah will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house: 8 with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? 9 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them; and he departed.
• Num 15:22-29 : 22 And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses, 23 even all that Jehovah hath commanded you by Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah, with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin-offering. 25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, and their sin-offering before Jehovah, for their error: 26 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. 27 And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering. 28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. 29 Ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
• Num 20:10-12 : 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.
• Judg 2:17 : 17 And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; [but] they did not so.
• Isa 30:11 : 11 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Luke 22:32 : 32 but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.
• 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.