Hebrews 6:18

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

that by two immutable thinges (in which it was vnpossible that god shuld lye) we myght have parfect consolacion which have fled for to holde fast the hope that is set before vs

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἵνα διὰ δύο πραγμάτων ἀμεταθέτων, ἐν οἷς ἀδύνατον ψεύσασθαι Θεόν, ἰσχυρὰν παράκλησιν ἔχωμεν, οἱ καταφυγόντες κρατῆσαι τῆς προκειμένης ἐλπίδος:

Transliteration

Hina dia dyo pragmatōn ametathētōn, in which adynaton pseusasthai Theon, ischyran paraklēsin echōmen, the ones kataphygontes kratēsai tēs prokeimenēs elpidos:

Grammar Details

• *Hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *dia*: preposition + genitive - through/by
• *dyo*: numeral - two
• *pragmatōn*: genitive plural neuter - things/matters
• *ametathētōn*: genitive plural neuter - unchangeable
• *adynaton*: nominative/accusative singular neuter - impossible
• *pseusasthai*: aorist middle infinitive - to lie
• *Theon*: accusative singular masculine - God
• *ischyran*: accusative singular feminine - strong
• *paraklēsin*: accusative singular feminine - encouragement/consolation
• *echōmen*: present active subjunctive, 1st person plural - we might have
• *kataphygontes*: aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine - having fled for refuge
• *kratēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to lay hold of
• *tēs prokeimenēs*: present middle/passive participle, genitive singular feminine - of the set before
• *elpidos*: genitive singular feminine - of hope

Word Meanings

• *Hina*: so that/in order that
• *pragmatōn*: things/matters/facts
• *ametathētōn*: unchangeable/immutable
• *adynaton*: impossible
• *pseusasthai*: to lie/to speak falsely
• *ischyran*: strong/powerful
• *paraklēsin*: encouragement/consolation/comfort
• *kataphygontes*: having fled for refuge/taken refuge
• *kratēsai*: to lay hold of/to seize/to grasp
• *prokeimenēs*: set before/set forth/lying before us
• *elpidos*: hope/expectation

Referenced Verses

• Titus 1:2 : 2 vpon the hope of eternall lyfe which lyfe God that cannot lye hath promised before the worlde begane:
• Num 23:19 : 19 The Lorde is not a ma that he can lye nether the sonne of a ma that he can repent: shulde he saye and not doo or shulde he speake and not make it good?
• Num 35:11-15 : 11 ye shall bylde cities whiche shalbe preuyleged townes for you: that he whiche sleeth a man vnwares maye flye thither. 12 And the cities shalbe to flee from the executer of bloude that he whyche kylled dye not vntill he stonde before the congregacion in iudgement. 13 And of these vi. fre cities 14 which ye shall geue.iij. ye shall geue on this syde Iordayne and.iij. in ye londe of Canaan. 15 And these sixe fre cities shalbe for the childern of Israel and for the straunger and for him that dwelleth amonge you yt all thei which kill any persone vnwares maye flee thither.
• Matt 3:7 : 7 When he sawe many of ye Pharises and of ye Saduces come to hys baptim he sayde vnto the: O generacio of vipers who hath taught you to fle fro the vengeauce to come?
• Luke 2:25 : 25 And beholde ther was a ma in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same ma was iuste and feared God and longed for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him.
• Rom 3:4 : 4 God forbid. Let god be true and all men lyars as it is written: That thou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayinge and shuldest overcome when thou arte iudged.
• Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewe ye rightewesnes which before him is of valoure in yt he forgeveth ye synnes yt are passed which God dyd suffre
• 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the comaundement of God oure savioure and Lorde Iesus Christ which is oure hope.
• 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fyght ye good fyght of fayth. Laye honde on eternall lyfe where vnto thou arte called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• 2 Tim 2:13 : 13 Yf we beleve not yet abideth he faithfull. He cannot denye him silfe.
• Heb 3:11 : 11 so that I sware in my wrathe that they shuld not enter into my rest.
• Gen 19:22 : 22 Haste the ad saue thy selfe there for I can do nothynge tyll thou be come in thyder. And therfore the name of the cyte is called Zoar.
• Heb 7:21 : 21 Those prestes were made wt out an oth: but this prest with an oth by him that saide vnto him The LORde sware and will not repent: Thou arte a prest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.
• Heb 11:7 : 7 By fayth Noe honored God after that he was warned of thinges which were not sene and prepared the arcke to the savinge of his houssholde thorowe the which arcke he condempned the worlde and became heyre of the rightewesnes which commeth by fayth.
• Heb 12:1-2 : 1 Wherfore let vs also (seynge that we are copased with so great a multitude of witnesses) laye awaye all that presseth doune and the synne that hageth on and let vs rune with paciece vnto the battayle yt is set before vs 2 lokynge vnto Iesus the auctor and fynnyssher of oure fayth which for the ioye that was set before him abode the crosse and despysed the shame and is set doune on the right honde of ye trone of God.
• 1 John 1:10 : 10 Yf we saye we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his worde is not in vs.
• 1 John 5:10 : 10 He that beleveth on the sonne of god hath the witnes in him silfe. He that beleveth not God hath made him a lyar be cause he beleved not the recorde that god gave of his sonne.
• Phil 2:1 : 1 If ther be amoge you eny consolacion in Christ yf ther be eny cofortable love yf there be eny fellishippe of the sprete yf ther be eny copassion or mercy:
• Col 1:5 : 5 for the hopes sake which is layde vp in store for you in heven of which hope ye have herde before by ye true worde of the gospe
• Col 1:27 : 27 to whom god wolde make knowen the glorious riches of this mistery amonge the gentyls which riches is Christ in you the hope of glory
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and for to loke for his sonne from heven whom he raysed from deeth: I mean Iesus which delivereth vs from wrath to come.
• 2 Thess 2:16-17 : 16 Oure LORde Iesu Christ hym silfe and God oure father which hath loved vs and hath geven vs everlastynge consolacion and good hope thorowe grace 17 comforte youre hertes and stablysshe you in all doctrine and good doynge.
• Rom 15:5 : 5 The God of pacience and consolacion geve vnto every one of you that ye be lyke mynded one towardes another after the insample of Christ:
• 2 Cor 1:5-7 : 5 For as ye affliccios of Christ are pleteous in vs eve so is oure consolacio plenteous by Christ. 6 Whether we be troubled for youre consolacion and salvacio which salvacion sheweth her power in yt ye soffre ye same affliccios which we also suffre: or whether we be coforted for youre consolacion and salvacion: 7 yet oure hope is stedfast for you in as moch as we know how that as ye have youre parte in affliccios so shall ye be parttakers of consolacion.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heven and erth shall perisshe: but my wordes shall abyde.
• 2 Cor 5:18-21 : 18 Neverthelesse all thinges are of god which hath reconciled vs vnto him sylfe by Iesus Christ and hath geven vnto vs the office to preach the atonement. 19 For god was in Christ and made agrement bitwene the worlde and hym sylfe and imputed not their synnes vnto them: and hath comitted to vs the preachynge of ye atonmet. 20 Now then are we messengers in the roume of Christ: even as though God did beseche you thorow vs: So praye we you in Christes stede that ye be atone with God: 21 for he hath made him to be synne for vs which knewe no synne that we by his meanes shuld be that rightewesnes which before God is aloved.
• Col 1:23 : 23 yf ye continue grounded and stablysshed in the fayth and be not moved awaye from the hope of the gospell wher of ye have herde howe that it is preached amonge all creatures which are vnder heven wher of I Paul am made a minister.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a sonne hath rule over the housse whose housse are we so that we hold fast the confydence and the reioysynge of that hope vnto the ende.