Hebrews 12:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Let there be no fornicator or vncleane person, as Esau, which for one morsell of meate, solde his birthryght.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μή τις πόρνος, ἢ βέβηλος, ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς ἀπέδοτο τὰ πρωτοτόκια αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

Lest any pornos, or bebēlos, as Ēsau, who anti brōseōs mias apedoto the prōtotokia of him.

Grammar Details

• *pornos*: noun, nominative, singular, masculine - fornicator/sexually immoral person
• *bebēlos*: adjective, nominative, singular, masculine - profane/unholy
• *Ēsau*: proper noun, nominative, singular, masculine - Esau
• *anti*: preposition + genitive - for/in exchange for
• *brōseōs*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of food/eating
• *mias*: adjective, genitive, singular, feminine - of one/single
• *apedoto*: verb, aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - sold/gave away
• *prōtotokia*: noun, accusative, plural, neuter - birthright

Word Meanings

• *pornos*: fornicator/sexually immoral person/one who practices sexual immorality
• *bebēlos*: profane/unholy/godless/worldly
• *brōseōs*: food/eating/meal
• *prōtotokia*: birthright/rights of the firstborn

Referenced Verses

• Heb 13:4 : 4 Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge.
• Gen 25:31-34 : 31 And Iacob saide: sell me this day thy byrthryght. 32 Esau sayde: lo, I am at the poynt to dye, and what profite shall this byrthryght do me? 33 Iacob aunswered: sweare to me then this day. And he sware to him, & solde his byrthryght vnto Iacob. 34 Then Iacob gaue Esau bread and pottage of ryse, and he dyd eate and drinke, and rose vp, and went his way: and Esau little regarded his byrthright.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstayne from thynges offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication: From which yf ye kepe your selues, ye shall do well. So fare ye well.
• 1 Cor 5:1-6 : 1 There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, & suche fornication as is not named among the gentiles: that one shoulde haue his fathers wyfe. 2 And ye swell, and haue not rather sorowed, that he that hath so done this deede myght be put from among you. 3 For I veryly, as absent in body, but present in spirite, haue determined alredie, as though I were present, concernyng hym that hath done this deede. 4 In the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe, when ye are gathered together and my spirite, with the power of the Lorde Iesus Christe, 5 To delyuer suche a one vnto Satan for the destruction of the flesshe, that the spirite may be saued in the daye of the Lorde Iesus. 6 Your reioycing is not good. Knowe ye not, that a litle leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe?
• 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote vnto you in an epistle, that ye should not companie with fornicatours: 10 And I meant not at all with the fornicatours of this worlde, or with the couetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then must ye needes haue gone out of the world. 11 But nowe I haue written vnto you, that ye companie not together, if any that is called a brother be a fornicatour, or couetous, or a worshipper of idols, or a rayler, or a drunkarde, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eate not.
• 1 Cor 6:15-20 : 15 Knowe ye not that your bodies are the members of Christe? Shall I then take the members of Christe, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbyd. 16 Know ye not, that he whiche coupleth him selfe with an harlot, is one body? For two (sayth he) shalbe one fleshe. 17 But he that is ioyned vnto the Lord is one spirite. 18 Flee fornication. Euery synne that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne body. 19 Knowe ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost whiche is in you, whom ye haue of God, and ye are not your owne? 20 For ye are dearely bought: therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirite, which are Gods.
• 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one daye three and thirtie thousande.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And that when I come agayne, my God bryng me lowe among you, and I shall bewayle many of the which haue sinned alredy, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnes, which they haue comitted.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 The deedes of the flesshe are manifest, which are these, adulterie, fornication, vncleannesse, wantonnesse, 20 Worshippyng of images, witchcrafte, hatred, variaunce, zeale, wrath, strife, seditions, sectes, 21 Enuyinges, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonies, and such lyke: of the whiche I tell you before, as I haue tolde you in tyme past, that they which do suche thinges, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.
• Eph 5:3 : 3 But fornication, and all vncleannesse, or couetousnesse, let it not be once named among you, as it becommeth saintes:
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this ye knowe, that no whoremonger, neither vncleane person, nor couetous person, which is a worshipper of images, hath any inheritaunce in the kyngdome of Christe, and of God.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Mortifie therefore your members which are vpon the earth: fornication, vncleannesse, inordinate affection, euyll concupiscence, and couetousnesse, which is worshippyng of images:
• 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication: 4 That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour: 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God. 6 That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in any matter, because that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche: as we also haue forewarned you, and testified. 7 For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse.
• Gen 27:36 : 36 And he said agayne: Is not he rightly named Iacob? for he hath vndermyned me nowe two tymes. First he toke away my birthright: and see, nowe hath he taken away my blessyng also. And he sayde: hast thou kept neuer a blessyng for me?
• Mark 7:21 : 21 For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceade euyll thoughtes, adulterie, fornication, murther,
• Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write vnto them, that they absteyne themselues from fylthynesse of idols, and fro fornication, and from strangled, and from blood.
• Rev 2:20-23 : 20 Notwithstandyng, I haue a fewe thynges agaynst thee, because thou sufferest that woman Iesabel, which called her selfe a prophetisse, to teache, and to deceaue my seruauntes, to make them commit fornication, and to eate meates offred vp vnto idols. 21 And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not. 22 Beholde, I wyll cast her into a bed, and them that commit fornication with her into great aduersitie, except they turne from their deedes: 23 And I wyll kyll her chyldren with death, & all the Churches shall knowe, that I am he which searcheth the raynes and heartes: And I wyll geue vnto euery one of you, accordyng vnto his workes.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearefull and vnbeleuing, and the abhominable, and murtherers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, & all lyers, shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brymstone: which is the seconde death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For without shalbe dogges, and inchaunters, and whoremongers, and murtherers, and idolaters, and whosoeuer loueth or maketh leasynges.