Hebrews 5:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that 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 hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ‹Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?› which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Mark 15:37 : 37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
• Matt 27:46 : 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ‹Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?› that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Matt 27:50 : 50 ¶ Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
• John 12:27-28 : 27 ¶ ‹Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.› 28 ‹Father, glorify thy name.› Then came there a voice from heaven, [saying], I have both glorified [it], and will glorify [it] again.
• Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
• Ps 22:24 : 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
• Luke 22:41-44 : 41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42 Saying, ‹Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.› 43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Luke 23:46 : 46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, ‹Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit:› and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
• Heb 2:14 : 14 ¶ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
• John 17:1 : 1 ¶ These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, ‹Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:›
• Mark 14:32-39 : 32 ¶ And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, ‹Sit ye here, while I shall pray.› 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, ‹My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.› 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, ‹Abba, Father, all things› [are] ‹possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.› 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, ‹Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?› 38 ‹Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly› [is] ‹ready, but the flesh› [is] ‹weak.› 39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
• John 11:35 : 35 Jesus wept.
• John 11:42 : 42 ‹And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said› [it], ‹that they may believe that thou hast sent me.›
• John 17:4-5 : 4 ‹I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.› 5 ‹And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.›
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
• 1 John 4:3 : 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
• 2 John 1:7 : 7 ¶ For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
• Lev 2:2 : 2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, [to be] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
• Lev 4:4-9 : 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD. 5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: 6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary. 7 And the priest shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards, 9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] upon them, which [is] by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away, 10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. 11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, 12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt. 13 ¶ And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [somewhat against] any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which should not be done, and are guilty; 14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Ps 18:19-20 : 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 ¶ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
• Ps 22:1-9 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], 8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts. 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother's belly. 11 ¶ Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
• Ps 40:1-3 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
• Ps 69:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
• Ps 69:13-16 : 13 ¶ But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
• Ps 88:1 : 1 ¶ A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before thee:
• Isa 49:8 : 8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
• Matt 26:28-44 : 28 ‹For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.› 29 ‹But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.› 30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. 31 ¶ Then saith Jesus unto them, ‹All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.› 32 ‹But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.› 33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all [men] shall be offended because of thee, [yet] will I never be offended. 34 Jesus said unto him, ‹Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.› 35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples. 36 ¶ Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, ‹Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.› 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, ‹My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.› 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, ‹O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou› [wilt]. 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, ‹What, could ye not watch with me one hour?› 41 ‹Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed› [is] ‹willing, but the flesh› [is] ‹weak.› 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, ‹O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.› 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
• Matt 26:52-53 : 52 Then said Jesus unto him, ‹Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.› 53 ‹Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?›
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,