Hebrews 5:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μετριοπαθεῖν δυνάμενος τοῖς ἀγνοοῦσιν καὶ πλανωμένοις·, ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτὸς περίκειται ἀσθένειαν.

Transliteration

To metriopathein dynamenos with the ones agnoousin and planōmenois, epei also autos perikeitai astheneian.

Grammar Details

• *metriopathein*: present active infinitive - to deal gently/to moderate one's feelings
• *dynamenos*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - being able
• *tois agnoousin*: dative, masculine, plural with article + present active participle - to those being ignorant
• *kai*: adverb - also
• *planōmenois*: present middle/passive participle, dative, masculine, plural - going astray/being led astray
• *epei*: conjunction - since/because
• *autos*: intensive pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - himself
• *perikeitai*: present middle indicative, 3rd singular - is surrounded by/is encompassed with
• *astheneian*: accusative, feminine, singular - weakness/infirmity

Word Meanings

• *metriopathein*: to deal gently/to moderate feelings/to feel compassion in proper measure
• *agnoousin*: being ignorant/not knowing/erring unintentionally
• *planōmenois*: being led astray/wandering/going off course
• *perikeitai*: is surrounded by/wears/has around him
• *astheneian*: weakness/infirmity/frailty

Referenced Verses

• Heb 2:18 : 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
• Heb 7:28 : 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
• Heb 4:15 : 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
• Heb 12:13 : 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
• Gal 4:13 : 13 {G1161} Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 2 Cor 12:5 : 5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• Exod 32:2-5 : 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
• Exod 32:8 : 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Exod 32:21-24 : 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief. 23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
• Num 12:1-9 : 1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) 4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. 5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth. 6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. 8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? 9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
• Num 15:22-29 : 22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, 23 Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations; 24 Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. 25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance. 27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering. 28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. 29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
• Num 20:10-12 : 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. 12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
• Judg 2:17 : 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
• Isa 30:11 : 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Luke 22:32 : 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
• 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.