Hebrews 8:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι αὕτη ἡ διαθήκη ἣν διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας, λέγει Κύριος· διδοὺς νόμους μου εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίας αὐτῶν ἐπιγράψω αὐτούς: καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς Θεὸν, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν:

Transliteration

Because this the diathēkē which diathēsomai to the oikō Israēl after the hēmeras ekeinas, legei Kyrios; didous nomous of me into the dianoian of them, and upon kardias of them epigraphō them: and esomai to them for Theon, and they esontai to me for laon:

Grammar Details

• *diathēkē*: nominative, feminine, singular - covenant/testament
• *diathēsomai*: future middle indicative, 1st person singular - I will establish/covenant
• *oikō*: dative, masculine, singular - house/household
• *hēmeras*: accusative, feminine, plural - days
• *ekeinas*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, feminine, plural - those
• *legei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - says
• *didous*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - giving
• *nomous*: accusative, masculine, plural - laws
• *dianoian*: accusative, feminine, singular - mind/understanding
• *kardias*: accusative, feminine, plural - hearts
• *epigraphō*: future active indicative, 1st person singular - I will write/inscribe
• *esomai*: future middle indicative, 1st person singular - I will be
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *esontai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person plural - they will be
• *laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people

Word Meanings

• *diathēsomai*: I will establish/make/covenant with
• *dianoian*: mind/understanding/intellect
• *epigraphō*: I will write upon/inscribe/engrave

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them {G1519} a God, And they shall be to me {G1519} a people:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For this is the testament that I will make with the housse of Israhell: After those dayes sayth the LORde: I will put my lawes in their myndes and in their hertes I will wryte the and I wilbe their God and they shalbe my people.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For this is the Testament, that I wil make wt the house of Israell after those dayes, sayeth the LORDE. I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde, and in their hertes wyl I wryte them: And I wil be their God, and they shal be my people:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For this is the Testament that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawes in their minde, and in their heart I will write them, and I wil be their God, and they shalbe my people,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For this is the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord, geuyng my lawes into their mynde, and in their heart I wyl write them, and I wyll be to them a God, and they shalbe to me a people.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

• World English Bible (2000)

  "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law within them, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.
• Ezek 36:26-28 : 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
• Ezek 11:19-20 : 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh: 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Heb 10:16-17 : 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them, 17 And their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more.
• Deut 30:6 : 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• Rom 9:25-26 : 25 As He says also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not My people; and her beloved, who was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they shall be called the children of the living God.
• Jer 24:7 : 7 And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God: for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
• Rom 11:27 : 27 For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.
• 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
• Jas 1:21 : 21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Zech 8:8 : 8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• 2 Cor 3:7-8 : 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be rather glorious?
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Exod 34:1 : 1 And the LORD said to Moses, "Carve two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke."
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
• Hos 2:23 : 23 And I will plant her for me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people; and they shall say, You are my God.
• Ezek 39:22 : 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.
• Jer 32:40 : 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
• Song 2:16 : 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he feeds among the lilies.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine: 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
• Exod 24:4 : 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Exod 24:7 : 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people: and they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.
• 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
• Exod 34:27 : 27 And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."