Hebrews 12:19

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And sounde of a trompe, & the voyce of wordes: which voyce they that heard it, wisshed away, that the worde should not be spoken to them:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ σάλπιγγος ἤχῳ, καὶ φωνῇ ῥημάτων· ἧς οἱ ἀκούσαντες παρῃτήσαντο μὴ προστεθῆναι αὐτοῖς λόγον:

Transliteration

And of salpingos ēchō, and to phōnē rhēmatōn; which those akousantes parētēsanto not prostethēnai to them logon:

Grammar Details

• *salpingos*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of trumpet
• *ēchō*: noun, dative, singular, masculine - to sound/noise
• *phōnē*: noun, dative, singular, feminine - to voice/sound
• *rhēmatōn*: noun, genitive, plural, neuter - of words/sayings
• *akousantes*: participle, aorist active, nominative, plural, masculine - having heard
• *parētēsanto*: verb, aorist middle indicative, 3rd person plural - begged off/refused/asked to be excused
• *prostethēnai*: verb, aorist passive infinitive - to be added/spoken further
• *logon*: noun, accusative, singular, masculine - word/message

Word Meanings

• *salpingos*: trumpet/horn
• *ēchō*: sound/noise/blast
• *parētēsanto*: begged off/refused/asked to be excused/declined
• *prostethēnai*: to be added/spoken further/continued

Referenced Verses

• Deut 18:16 : 16 Accordyng to all that thou desiredst of the Lorde thy God in Horeb in the day of the assemblie, when thou saydest: Let me heare the voyce of my Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I dye not.
• Deut 4:12 : 12 And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire, and ye hearde the voyce of the wordes: but sawe no similitude, saue hearde a voyce only.
• Deut 4:33 : 33 Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?
• Deut 5:3-9 : 3 The Lorde made not this couenaunt with our fathers, but with vs: euen with vs, which are all here alyue this day. 4 The Lorde talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the middes of the fire: 5 And I stoode betweene the Lorde and you the same tyme, and shewed you the worde of the Lord: For ye were afrayde at the sight of the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he sayde: 6 I am the Lorde thy God, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my presence. 8 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, or any likenesse of that which is in heauen aboue, and that is in earth beneath, and that is in the waters beneath the earth. 9 Thou shalt neither bowe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God, am a ielouse God, visityng the wickednesse of the fathers vpon the children, euen vnto the third and fourth generation among them that hate me: 10 And shewe mercie vpon thousandes, among them that loue me, and kepe my commaundementes. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne: for the Lorde wyll not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne. 12 Kepe the Sabbath day, that thou sanctifie it as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee. 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and do all that thou hast to do: 14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God: thou shalt not do any worke, thou nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruaunt, nor thy mayde, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, nor any of thy cattell, nor the straunger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruaunt, and thy mayde, may rest as well as thou. 15 Remember that thou wast a seruaunt in the lande of Egypt, and howe that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence, through a mightie hande and a stretched out arme: For which cause the Lorde thy God commaunded thee to kepe the Sabbath day. 16 Honour thy father & thy mother, as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee: that thy dayes may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee. 17 Thou shalt not slay. 18 Thou shalt not commit adulterie. 19 Thou shalt not steale. 20 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour. 21 Thou shalt not lust after thy neyghbours wyfe, thou shalt not couet thy neyghbours house, his fielde, his seruaunt, or his mayde, his oxe, his asse, or ought that thy neyghbour hath. 22 These wordes the Lorde spake vnto all your multitude in the mount, out of the middes of the fire, of the cloude, and of the darkenesse, with a great voyce, and added nothyng: and wrote them in two tables of stone, and deliuered them vnto me.
• Deut 5:24-27 : 24 And ye sayde: Beholde, the Lorde our God hath shewed vs his glorie and his greatnesse, and we haue hearde his voyce out of the middes of the fire: we haue seene this day that God doth talke with man, and he yet lyueth. 25 Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye? that this great fire shoulde consume vs: If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye: 26 For what fleshe hath it ben that euer hearde the voyce of the lyuyng God speakyng out of the middes of the fire (as we haue done) and yet dyd lyue? 27 Go thou and heare all that the Lorde our God sayth, and tell thou vnto vs all that the Lord our God sayth vnto thee, and we wyll heare it, and do it.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 In a moment, in the twynklyng of an eye, at the last trumpe. For the trumpe shall blowe, and the dead shall ryse incorruptible, and we shalbe chaunged.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, and in the voyce of the Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first.
• Exod 19:16-19 : 16 And the thirde day in the mornyng there was thunder and lyghtnyng, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the voyce of the trumpet exceedyng loude, so that all the people that was in the hoast was afrayde. 17 And Moyses brought the people out of the tentes to meete with God, and thei stoode at the neather part of the hil. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lorde descended downe vpon it in fire, and the smoke thereof, ascended vp as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount quaked exceedyngly. 19 And when the voyce of the trumpet blewe long, and waxed louder and louder, Moyses spake, and God aunswered hym by a voyce.
• Exod 20:1-9 : 1 And God spake all these wordes, and said. 2 I am the Lord thy GOD, whiche haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, out of ye house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my sight. 4 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neyther any similitude that is in heauen aboue, eyther in the earth beneath, or in the waters vnder the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neyther serue them: for I the Lord thy God, am a gelous God, and visite the sinne of the fathers vpon the chyldren, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me: 6 And shewe mercy vnto thousandes in them that loue me, and kepe my commaundementes. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne. 8 Remember the sabboth day that thou sanctifie it. 9 Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do. 10 But the seuenth day is the sabboth of the Lorde thy God: in it thou shalt do no maner of worke, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, thy man seruaunt, and thy mayde seruaunt, thy cattel, and the straunger that is within thy gates. 11 For in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: wherfore the Lorde blessed the seuenth day, and halowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kyll. 14 Thou shalt not commit adulterie. 15 Thou shalt not steale. 16 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour. 17 Thou shalt not couet thy neyghbours house, neyther shalt thou couet thy neyghbours wyfe, nor his man seruaut, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, or whatsoeuer thy neighbour hath. 18 And all the people saw the thunder and lightning, and the noyse of the trumpet, and the mountayne smoking: And when the people sawe it, they remoued, and stoode a farre of: 19 And said vnto Moyses, Talke thou with vs, and we wyll heart: But let not God talke with vs, lest we dye.
• Exod 20:22 : 22 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the chyldren of Israel: Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from out of heauen.