Hebrews 5:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

Who in the dayes of his flesh did offer vp prayers and supplications, with strong crying and teares vnto him, that was able to saue him from death, and was also heard in that which he feared.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὃς ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ, δεήσεις τε καὶ ἱκετηρίας πρὸς τὸν δυνάμενον σῴζειν αὐτὸν ἐκ θανάτου μετὰ κραυγῆς ἰσχυρᾶς καὶ δακρύων προσενέγκας, καὶ εἰσακουσθεὶς ἀπὸ τῆς εὐλαβείας·

Transliteration

Hos in the hēmerais of the sarkos of him, deēseis both and hiketērias pros the one dynamenon to sōzein him from thanatou with kraugēs ischyras and dakryōn having prosenegkas, and having been eisakoustheis from eulabeias;

Grammar Details

• *Hos*: relative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - who
• *en tais hēmerais*: preposition + dative, feminine, plural with article - in the days
• *tēs sarkos autou*: genitive, feminine, singular with article + genitive, masculine, singular pronoun - of his flesh
• *deēseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - supplications/petitions
• *te kai*: correlative conjunction - both and
• *hiketērias*: accusative, feminine, plural - entreaties/supplications
• *pros ton dynamenon*: preposition + accusative, masculine, singular with article + present middle participle - to the one being able
• *sōzein*: present active infinitive - to save
• *auton*: accusative, masculine, singular pronoun - him
• *ek thanatou*: preposition + genitive, masculine, singular - from death
• *meta kraugēs ischyras*: preposition + genitive, feminine, singular + genitive, feminine, singular adjective - with strong crying
• *kai dakryōn*: conjunction + genitive, neuter, plural - and tears
• *prosenegkas*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having offered/having brought
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *eisakoustheis*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having been heard
• *apo tēs eulabeias*: preposition + genitive, feminine, singular with article - from godly fear/reverence

Word Meanings

• *hēmerais*: days/time
• *sarkos*: flesh/physical body/human nature
• *deēseis*: supplications/petitions/prayers
• *hiketērias*: entreaties/supplications/earnest requests
• *dynamenon*: being able/having power
• *sōzein*: to save/to deliver/to preserve
• *thanatou*: death/mortality
• *kraugēs*: crying/outcry/shouting
• *ischyras*: strong/powerful/mighty
• *dakryōn*: tears/weeping
• *prosenegkas*: having offered/having brought forward/having presented
• *eisakoustheis*: having been heard/having been heeded
• *eulabeias*: godly fear/reverence/piety

Referenced Verses

• Mark 15:34 : 34 And at the ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lamma-sabachthani? which is by interpretation, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Mark 15:37 : 37 And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and gaue vp the ghost.
• Matt 27:46 : 46 And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? Yt is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Matt 27:50 : 50 Then Iesus cryed againe with a loude voyce, and yeelded vp the ghost.
• John 12:27-28 : 27 Now is my soule troubled: and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre: but therefore came I vnto this houre. 28 Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voyce from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and will glorifie it againe.
• Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore seeing we receiue a kingdome, which cannot be shaken, let vs haue grace whereby we may so serue God, that we may please him with reuerence and feare.
• Ps 22:24 : 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poore: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called vnto him, he heard.
• Luke 22:41-44 : 41 And he was drawen aside from them about a stones cast, & kneeled downe, and prayed, 42 Saying, Father, if thou wilt, take away this cuppe from mee: neuerthelesse, not my will, but thine be done. 43 And there appeared an Angell vnto him from heauen, comforting him. 44 But being in an agonie, hee prayed more earnestly: and his sweate was like drops of blood, trickling downe to the ground.
• Luke 23:46 : 46 And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and sayd, Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit; when hee thus had sayd, hee gaue vp the ghost.
• Heb 2:14 : 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himselfe likewise tooke part with them, that hee might destroye through death, him that had the power of death, that is the deuil,
• John 17:1 : 1 These things spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and saide, Father, that houre is come: glorifie thy Sonne, that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee,
• Mark 14:32-39 : 32 After, they came into a place named Gethsemane: then hee saide to his disciples, Sit yee here, till I haue praied. 33 And hee tooke with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and hee began to be troubled, and in great heauinesse, 34 And saide vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie here, and watch. 35 So he went forward a litle, and fell downe on the ground, and praied, that if it were possible, that houre might passe from him. 36 And he saide, Abba, Father, all things are possible vnto thee: take away this cup from me: neuertheles not that I will, but that thou wilt, be done. 37 Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watche one houre? 38 Watch ye, and pray, that ye enter not into tentation: the spirite in deede is ready, but the flesh is weake. 39 And againe hee went away, and praied, and spake the same wordes.
• John 11:35 : 35 And Iesus wept.
• John 11:42 : 42 I knowe that thou hearest me alwayes, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue, that thou hast sent me.
• John 17:4-5 : 4 I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe. 5 And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For (that that was impossible to ye Lawe, in as much as it was weake, because of ye flesh) God sending his owne Sonne, in ye similitude of sinful flesh, & for sinne, condened sinne in the flesh,
• Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
• 1 John 4:3 : 3 And euery spirit that confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God: but this is the spirit of Antichrist, of whome ye haue heard, how that he should come, and nowe already he is in this world.
• 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceiuers are entred into this worlde, which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh. He that is such one, is a deceiuer and an Antichrist.
• John 1:14 : 14 And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.
• Lev 2:2 : 2 And shall bring it vnto Aarons sonnes the Priestes, and he shall take thence his handfull of the flowre, and of the oyle with al the incense, and the Priest shall burne it for a memoriall vpon the altar: for it is an offering made by fire for a sweete sauour vnto the Lorde.
• Lev 4:4-9 : 4 And hee shall bring the bullocke vnto the dore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lorde, and shall put his hande vpon the bullocks head, and kill the bullocke before the Lorde. 5 And the Priest that is anointed shall take of the bullocks blood, and bring it into the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 6 Then the Priest shall dippe his finger in the blood, & sprinkle of the blood seuen times before the Lord, before the vaile of the Sanctuarie. 7 The Priest also shall put some of the blood before the Lord, vpon the hornes of the altar of sweete incense, which is in the Tabernacle of the Congregatoin, then shall hee powre all the rest of the blood of the bullocke at the foote of the altar of burnt offring, which is at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 8 And hee shall take away all the fat of the bullocke for the sinne offring: to wit, the fat that couereth the inwardes, and all the fatte that is about the inwardes. 9 He shall take away also the two kidneis, and the fat that is vpon them, and vpon the flankes, and the kall vpon the liuer with the kidneis, 10 As it was taken away from the bullock of the peace offrings, & the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar of burnt offring. 11 But the skinne of the bullocke, and all his flesh, with his heade, and his legs, and his inwardes, and his dung shal he beare out. 12 So he shall cary the whole bullocke out of the host vnto a cleane place, where the ashes are powred, & shall burne him on ye wood in the fire: where ye ashes are cast out, shal he be burnt. 13 And if the whole Congregation of Israel shall sinne through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the multitude, and haue done against any of the commaundementes of the Lorde which should not be done, and haue offended: 14 When the sinne which they haue committed shalbe knowen, then the Congregation shall offer a yong bullocke for the sinne, & bring him before the Tabernacle of the Congregation,
• Ps 18:19-20 : 19 Hee brought mee foorth also into a large place: hee deliuered mee because hee fauoured me. 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:
• Ps 22:1-9 : 1 To him that excelleth vpon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring? 2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience. 3 But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them. 5 They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people. 7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying, 8 He trusted in the Lorde, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him. 9 But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts. 10 I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly. 11 Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me. 12 Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about. 13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon. 14 I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels. 15 My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete. 17 I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture. 19 But be thou not farre off, O Lorde, my strength: hasten to helpe me. 20 Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge. 21 Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
• Ps 40:1-3 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. I Waited paciently for the Lorde, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my cry. 2 Hee brought mee also out of the horrible pit, out of the myrie clay, and set my feete vpon the rocke, and ordered my goings. 3 And he hath put in my mouth a new song of praise vnto our God: many shal see it and feare, and shall trust in the Lord.
• Ps 69:1 : 1 To him that excelleth vpon Shoshannim. A Psalme of Dauid. Saue mee, O God: for the waters are entred euen to my soule.
• Ps 69:13-16 : 13 But Lorde, I make my praier vnto thee in an acceptable time, euen in the multitude of thy mercie: O God, heare me in the trueth of thy saluation. 14 Deliuer mee out of the myre, that I sinke not: let me be deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters. 15 Let not the water flood drowne mee, neither let the deepe swallowe me vp: and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me. 16 Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnes is good: turne vnto me according to ye multitude of thy tender mercies.
• Ps 88:1 : 1 A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth vpon Malath Leannoth. O Lorde God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.
• Isa 49:8 : 8 Thus sayeth the Lorde, In an acceptable time haue I heard thee, and in a day of saluation haue I helped thee: and I will preserue thee, & wil giue thee for a couenant of ye people, that thou maiest raise vp the earth, and obtaine the inheritance of the desolate heritages:
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities.
• Matt 26:28-44 : 28 For this is my blood of the Newe Testament, that is shedde for many, for the remission of sinnes. 29 I say vnto you, that I will not drinke henceforth of this fruit of the vine vntil that day, when I shal drinke it new with you in my Fathers kingdome. 30 And when they had sung a Psalme, they went out into the mount of Oliues. 31 Then saide Iesus vnto them, All yee shall be offended by me this night: for it is written, I wil smite the shepheard, and the sheepe of the flocke shalbe scattered. 32 But after I am risen againe, I will go before you into Galile. 33 But Peter aunswered, and sayde vnto him, Though that al men should be offended by thee, yet will I neuer be offended. 34 Iesus sayde vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, that this night, before the cocke crow, thou shalt denie me thrise. 35 Peter saide vnto him, Though I should die with thee, I will in no case denie thee. Likewise also sayd all the disciples. 36 Then went Iesus with them into a place which is called Gethsemane, & said vnto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I goe, and pray yonder. 37 And hee tooke vnto him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedeus, and began to waxe sorowfull, and grieuously troubled. 38 Then sayde Iesus vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie yee here, and watch with me. 39 So hee went a litle further, and fell on his face, and praied, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup passe from me: neuerthelesse, not as I will, but as thou wilt. 40 After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? Coulde yee not watch with me one houre? 41 Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake. 42 Againe he went away the second time, and praied, saying, O my Father, if this cuppe can not passe away from mee, but that I must drinke it, thy will be done. 43 And he came, and founde them a sleepe againe, for their eyes were heauie. 44 So he left them and went away againe, and praied the third time, saying the same woordes.
• Matt 26:52-53 : 52 Then sayde Iesus vnto him, Put vp thy sworde into his place: for all that take the sworde, shall perish with the sworde. 53 Either thinkest thou, that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels?
• Heb 13:20 : 20 The God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus, the great shepheard of the sheepe, through the blood of the euerlasting Couenant,