Hebrews 12:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἱ μὲν γὰρ πρὸς ὀλίγας ἡμέρας κατὰ τὸ δοκοῦν αὐτοῖς ἐπαίδευον· ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ συμφέρον, εἰς τὸ μεταλαβεῖν τῆς ἁγιότητος αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

They indeed for for oligas hēmeras according to the dokoun to them epaideuon; he but for the sympheron, unto the metalabein of the hagiotētos of him.

Grammar Details

*oligas*: adjective, accusative, plural, feminine - few/little
*hēmeras*: noun, accusative, plural, feminine - days
*dokoun*: participle, present active, accusative, singular, neuter - seeming/thinking best
*epaideuon*: verb, imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural - they were disciplining/training
*sympheron*: participle, present active, accusative, singular, neuter - being profitable/beneficial
*metalabein*: verb, aorist active infinitive - to partake/share
*hagiotētos*: noun, genitive, singular, feminine - of holiness

Word Meanings

*dokoun*: seeming/thinking best/appearing right
*epaideuon*: they were disciplining/training/instructing/chastening
*sympheron*: being profitable/beneficial/advantageous/helpful
*metalabein*: to partake/share/participate in

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Lev 11:44-45 : 44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Lev 19:2 : 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Eph 4:24 : 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph 5:26-27 : 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Col 1:22 : 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Heb 12:5-6 : 5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1 Pet 2:5 : 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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