Hebrews 11:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ καὶ ἀφʼ ἑνὸς ἐγεννήθησαν, καὶ ταῦτα νενεκρωμένου, καθὼς τὰ ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τῷ πλήθει, καὶ ὡσ ἡ ἄμμος ἡ παρὰ τὸ χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης ἡ ἀναρίθμητος.

Transliteration

Dio also from henos egennēthēsan, and this one having been nenekrōmenou, as the astra of the ouranou in the plēthei, and as the ammos para the cheilos of the thalassēs the anarithmētos.

Grammar Details

• *Dio*: conjunction - therefore/for this reason
• *henos*: cardinal numeral, genitive, masculine, singular - one
• *egennēthēsan*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd plural - were born/begotten
• *nenekrōmenou*: perfect passive participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having been dead/deadened
• *astra*: nominative, neuter, plural - stars
• *ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of heaven/sky
• *plēthei*: dative, neuter, singular - in multitude
• *ammos*: nominative, feminine, singular - sand
• *para*: preposition + accusative - beside/by/near
• *cheilos*: accusative, neuter, singular - shore/lip/rim
• *thalassēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of sea
• *anarithmētos*: nominative, feminine, singular - innumerable/countless

Word Meanings

• *Dio*: therefore/for this reason/wherefore
• *egennēthēsan*: were born/begotten/brought forth
• *nenekrōmenou*: having been dead/deadened/impotent
• *astra*: stars/constellations
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky/firmament
• *plēthei*: multitude/number/fullness
• *ammos*: sand/seashore
• *cheilos*: shore/lip/rim/edge
• *thalassēs*: sea/ocean
• *anarithmētos*: innumerable/countless/numberless

Referenced Verses

• Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
• Gen 32:12 : 12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
• Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
• Isa 10:22 : 22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
• Isa 48:19 : 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
• Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
• Rom 9:27 : 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
• Rev 20:8 : 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
• Exod 32:13 : 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
• Deut 1:10 : 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
• Deut 28:62 : 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
• Josh 11:4 : 4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
• Judg 7:12 : 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
• 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
• 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
• 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
• 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
• Neh 9:23 : 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
• Rom 4:17-19 : 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: