Hebrews 12:19

Geneva Bible (1560)

Neither vnto the sounde of a trumpet, and the voyce of wordes, which they that heard it, excused themselues, that the word should not be spoken to them any more,

📖 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 According to al that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let me heare the voice of my Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.
• Deut 4:12 : 12 And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire, and ye heard the voyce of the wordes, but sawe no similitude, saue a voyce.
• Deut 4:33 : 33 Did euer people heare the voyce of God speaking out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast heard, and liued?
• Deut 5:3-9 : 3 The Lorde made not this couenant with our fathers onely, but with vs, euen with vs all here aliue this day. 4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the Mount, out of the middes of the fire. 5 (At that time I stoode betweene the Lorde and you, to declare vnto you ye word of the Lord: for ye were afraid at the sight of the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said, 6 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt haue none other gods before my face. 8 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that that is in heauen aboue, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters vnder the earth. 9 Thou shalt neither bowe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, euen vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: 10 And shewing mercie vnto thousandes of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements. 11 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine. 12 Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and shalt doe all thy worke: 14 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not doe any worke therein, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy mayd, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, neither any of thy cattel, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant and thy mayde may rest aswell as thou. 15 For, remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence by a mightie hand and a stretched out arme: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to obserue the Sabbath day. 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath comanded thee, that thy dayes may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adulterie. 19 Neither shalt thou steale. 20 Neither shalt thou beare false witnesse against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours house, his fielde, nor his man seruant, nor his mayd, his oxe, nor his asse, nor ought that thy neighbour hath. 22 These wordes the Lorde spake vnto all your multitude in the mount out of the mids of the fire, the cloude and the darkenes, with a great voyce, and added no more thereto: and wrote them vpon two tables of stone, & deliuered them vnto me.
• Deut 5:24-27 : 24 And ye sayd, Beholde, the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glory and his greatnes, and we haue heard his voyce out of the middes of the fire: we haue seene this day that God doeth talke with man, and he liueth. 25 Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire wil consume vs: if we heare ye voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye. 26 For what flesh was there euer, that heard the voyce of the liuing God speaking out of the middes of the fire as we haue, and liued? 27 Go thou neere and heare all that the Lord our God saith: and declare thou vnto vs all that the Lorde our God saith vnto thee, and we will heare it, and doe it.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 In a moment, in the twinckling of an eye at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shalbe raysed vp incorruptible, and we shalbe changed.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lorde himselfe shall descende from heauen with a shoute, and with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
• Exod 19:16-19 : 16 And the thirde day, when it was morning, there was thunders and lightnings, and a thicke cloude vpon the mount, and the sounde of the trumpet exceeding loude, so that all the people, that was in the campe, was afrayde. 17 Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meete with God, and they stoode in the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was all on smoke, because the Lorde came downe vpon it in fire, and the smoke therof ascended, as the smoke of a fornace, and all the mount trembled exceedingly. 19 And when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by voyce.
• Exod 20:1-9 : 1 Then God spake all these wordes, saying, 2 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me. 4 Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth beneath, nor that are in the waters vnder the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neither serue them: for I am the Lord thy God, a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vpon the third generation and vpon the fourth of them that hate me: 6 And shewing mercie vnto thousandes to them that loue me, & keepe my commandemets. 7 Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lorde thy God in vaine: for the Lorde will not hold him guiltles that taketh his Name in vayne. 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy. 9 Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke, 10 But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayde, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. 11 For in sixe dayes the Lord made the heauen and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: therefore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adulterie. 15 Thou shalt not steale. 16 Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, neyther any thing that is thy neighbours. 18 And all the people sawe the thunders, and the lightnings, & the sound of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking & when the people saw it they fled and stoode afare off, 19 And sayde vnto Moses, Talke thou with vs, and we will heare: but let not God talke with vs, lest we die.
• Exod 20:22 : 22 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen.