Hebrews 5:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γὰρ ὀφείλοντες εἶναι διδάσκαλοι, διὰ τὸν χρόνον πάλιν χρείαν ἔχετε τοῦ διδάσκειν ὑμᾶς τινὰ τὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν λογίων τοῦ Θεοῦ· καὶ γεγόνατε χρείαν ἔχοντες γάλακτος, καὶ οὐ στερεᾶς τροφῆς.

Transliteration

For gar opheilontes to einai didaskaloi, through the chronon again chreian you echete of the didaskein you tina the stoicheia of the archēs of the logiōn of Theou; and you have gegonate chreian echontes of galaktos, and not of stereas trophēs.

Grammar Details

• *Kai gar*: conjunction + postpositive conjunction - for indeed
• *opheilontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - owing/being obligated
• *einai*: present active infinitive - to be
• *didaskaloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - teachers
• *dia ton chronon*: preposition + accusative, masculine, singular with article - because of the time
• *palin*: adverb - again
• *chreian echete*: accusative, feminine, singular + present active indicative, 2nd plural - you have need
• *tou didaskein hymas*: genitive articular infinitive + accusative, 2nd plural pronoun - of teaching you
• *tina*: accusative, neuter, plural indefinite pronoun - certain
• *ta stoicheia*: accusative, neuter, plural with article - the elementary principles
• *tēs archēs*: genitive, feminine, singular with article - of the beginning
• *tōn logiōn*: genitive, neuter, plural with article - of the oracles
• *tou Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular with article - of God
• *kai gegonate*: conjunction + perfect active indicative, 2nd plural - and you have become
• *chreian echontes*: accusative, feminine, singular + present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having need
• *galaktos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of milk
• *kai ou*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *stereas trophēs*: genitive, feminine, singular adjective + genitive, feminine, singular - of solid food

Word Meanings

• *opheilontes*: owing/being obligated/being indebted
• *didaskaloi*: teachers/instructors
• *chronon*: time/period
• *chreian*: need/necessity
• *didaskein*: to teach/to instruct
• *stoicheia*: elementary principles/rudiments/basic elements
• *archēs*: beginning/origin/first principles
• *logiōn*: oracles/utterances/words
• *galaktos*: milk/basic sustenance
• *stereas*: solid/firm/stable
• *trophēs*: food/nourishment

Referenced Verses

• Heb 6:1 : 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• Heb 5:13 : 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
• 1 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
• Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
• Titus 2:3-4 : 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• 1 Cor 14:19 : 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
• Phil 3:1 : 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
• 2 Sam 16:23 : 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
• Ezra 7:10 : 10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
• Ps 34:11 : 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
• Isa 55:1 : 1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
• Matt 17:17 : 17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
• Mark 9:19 : 19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
• Rom 3:2 : 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.