Hebrews 2:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Διὰ τοῦτο δεῖ περισσοτέρως ἡμᾶς προσέχειν τοῖς ἀκουσθεῖσιν, μήποτε παραρρυῶμεν.

Transliteration

Dia this dei perissoteros we prosechein to the things akoustheisin, lest pararrouomen.

Grammar Details

• *Dia*: preposition with accusative - because of/through
• *dei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - it is necessary
• *perissoteros*: comparative adverb - more abundantly/earnestly
• we: accusative plural pronoun (*hēmas*) - us
• *prosechein*: present active infinitive - to give attention to/hold fast
• *akoustheisin*: aorist passive participle, dative plural - things having been heard
• *pararrouomen*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st plural - we might drift away/slip away

Word Meanings

• *perissoteros*: more abundantly/more earnestly/more carefully
• *prosechein*: to give attention to/to hold fast/to apply the mind
• *pararrouomen*: drift away/flow past/slip away

Referenced Verses

• Heb 1:1-2 : 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
• 2 Pet 3:1 : 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
• Luke 8:15 : 15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
• 2 Pet 1:12-13 : 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
• 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
• Heb 12:5 : 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:
• Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
• Prov 7:1-2 : 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
• Deut 32:46-47 : 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Josh 23:11-12 : 11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
• 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.
• Ps 119:9 : 9 BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
• Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• Prov 3:21 : 21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
• Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
• Prov 4:20-22 : 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
• Luke 9:44 : 44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
• Matt 16:9 : 9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
• Mark 8:18 : 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
• Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
• Heb 2:2-4 : 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
• Hab 2:16 : 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
• Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.