Hebrews 3:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μήποτε ἔσται ἔν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας, ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ζῶντος.

Transliteration

Blepete, adelphoi, mēpote estai in tini of you kardia ponēra apistias, in the apostēnai from Theou zōntos.

Grammar Details

*Blepete*: present imperative, 2nd person plural - see/take heed/beware
*adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
*mēpote*: conjunction - lest/perhaps/that not
*estai*: future indicative, 3rd person singular - will be
*tini*: indefinite pronoun, dative, masculine, singular - anyone/someone
*kardia*: nominative, feminine, singular - heart
*ponēra*: nominative, feminine, singular - evil/wicked
*apistias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of unbelief/faithlessness
*apostēnai*: aorist infinitive - to depart/withdraw
*Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
*zōntos*: present participle, genitive, masculine, singular - living

Word Meanings

*Blepete*: take heed/beware/see to it
*adelphoi*: brothers/siblings/brethren
*mēpote*: lest/in case/that not
*kardia*: heart/mind/inner self
*ponēra*: evil/wicked/malicious
*apistias*: unbelief/unfaithfulness/lack of trust
*apostēnai*: to depart/withdraw/fall away
*zōntos*: living/alive/life-giving

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Referenced Verses

Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 7:24 : 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jer 18:12 : 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Jer 11:8 : 8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.
Heb 12:25 : 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:
Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Mark 13:33 : 33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
1 Cor 10:12 : 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Prov 1:32 : 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Heb 10:38 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Heb 3:10 : 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Jer 16:12 : 12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Jer 3:17 : 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Job 21:14 : 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 22:17 : 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Ps 18:21 : 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Hos 1:2 : 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Matt 24:4 : 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mark 7:21-23 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mark 13:9 : 9 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
Mark 13:23 : 23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.
Isa 59:13 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Luke 21:8 : 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying , I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
Rom 11:21 : 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Heb 2:1-3 : 1 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. 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;
Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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