Hebrews 3:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη. ⋄Διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ εἶπον, Ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ· αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου.

Transliteration

tessarakonta etē. Dio prosōchthisa the genea ekeinē, and eipon, Aei planōntai the kardia; autoi de not egnōsan the hodous of me.

Grammar Details

*tessarakonta*: numeral - forty
*etē*: accusative, neuter, plural - years
*Dio*: conjunction - therefore/for this reason
*prosōchthisa*: aorist indicative, 1st person singular - I was displeased/angry
*genea*: dative, feminine, singular - generation
*ekeinē*: demonstrative pronoun, dative, feminine, singular - that
*eipon*: aorist indicative, 1st person singular - I said
*Aei*: adverb - always/continually
*planōntai*: present passive indicative, 3rd person plural - they are led astray/wander
*kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
*autoi*: personal pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural - they
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
*egnōsan*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural - they knew
*hodous*: accusative, feminine, plural - ways/roads/paths

Word Meanings

*etē*: years/periods of time
*Dio*: therefore/for this reason/wherefore
*prosōchthisa*: was angry with/was displeased with/was provoked
*genea*: generation/age/race
*eipon*: said/spoke/declared
*Aei*: always/continually/constantly
*planōntai*: go astray/wander/are deceived
*kardia*: heart/mind/inner self
*egnōsan*: knew/understood/recognized
*hodous*: ways/paths/roads/manner of life

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Referenced Verses

Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Eph 4:30 : 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Gen 6:6 : 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Ps 67:2 : 2 That thy way may be known{H8800)} upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn{H8802)} and rebellious{H8802)} generation; a generation that set not their heart aright{H8689)}, and whose spirit was not stedfast{H8738)} with God.
Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they provoke{H8686)} him in the wilderness, and grieve{H8686)} him in the desert!
Ps 147:20 : 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Isa 28:7 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
John 3:19-20 : 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
John 8:45 : 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 3:7 : 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

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