Hebrews 13:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διδαχαῖς ποικίλαις καὶ ξέναις μὴ περιφέρεσθε. Καλὸν γὰρ χάριτι βεβαιοῦσθαι τὴν καρδίαν· οὐ βρώμασιν, ἐν οἷς οὐκ ὠφελήθησαν οἱ περιπατήσαντες.

Transliteration

Didachais poikilais kai xenais mē peripheresthe. Kalon gar by chariti bebaiousthai the kardian; ou by brōmasin, in which ouk ōphelēthēsan the ones having peripatēsantes.

Grammar Details

• *didachais*: dative, feminine, plural - teachings/doctrines
• *poikilais*: dative, feminine, plural, adjective - various/diverse
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *xenais*: dative, feminine, plural, adjective - strange/foreign
• *mē*: negative particle with imperative - not
• *peripheresthe*: imperative, present, passive, 2nd person, plural - be carried about/led astray
• *kalon*: nominative, neuter, singular, adjective - good/excellent
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *chariti*: dative, feminine, singular - grace/favor
• *bebaiousthai*: present, passive, infinitive - to be established/strengthened
• *kardian*: accusative, feminine, singular - heart
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *brōmasin*: dative, neuter, plural - foods/meats
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *ōphelēthēsan*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person, plural - were benefited/profited
• *peripatēsantes*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having walked/lived

Word Meanings

• *didachais*: teachings/doctrines/instructions
• *poikilais*: various/diverse/different kinds
• *xenais*: strange/foreign/unfamiliar
• *peripheresthe*: be carried about/led astray/tossed to and fro
• *kalon*: good/excellent/beneficial
• *chariti*: grace/favor/kindness
• *bebaiousthai*: be established/strengthened/confirmed/made firm
• *kardian*: heart/mind/inner self
• *brōmasin*: foods/meats/dietary rules
• *ōphelēthēsan*: were benefited/profited/helped
• *peripatēsantes*: having walked/lived/conducted themselves

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
• Rom 14:6 : 6 He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard `it', and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard `it'. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
• 2 Cor 1:21 : 21 and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, `is' God,
• Acts 20:30 : 30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, 10 only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them'.
• Jude 1:12 : 12 These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
• 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;
• Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,
• Acts 20:32 : 32 and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
• Rom 14:2 : 2 one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
• 2 Cor 11:11-15 : 11 wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known! 12 and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also; 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, 14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
• Gal 1:6-9 : 6 I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; 7 that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; 8 but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you -- anathema let him be! 9 as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive -- anathema let him be!
• Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;
• Col 2:4 : 4 and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,
• Col 2:7-8 : 7 being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving. 8 See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,
• Col 2:16-20 : 16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body `is' of the Christ; 18 let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and `in' worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, 19 and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God. 20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
• 2 Thess 2:2 : 2 that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;
• 2 Thess 2:17 : 17 comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
• 1 Tim 4:1-5 : 1 And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, 2 in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience, 3 forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, 4 because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received, 5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.
• 1 Tim 6:3-5 : 3 if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
• 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,
• 2 Tim 2:1-2 : 1 Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that `is' in Christ Jesus, 2 and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;
• Titus 1:14-15 : 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth; 15 all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;
• Rom 14:17 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
• Rom 16:17-18 : 17 And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; 18 for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
• 1 Cor 8:8 : 8 But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
• Lev 11:1-9 : 1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them, 2 `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This `is' the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which `are' on the earth: 3 any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, it ye do eat. 4 `Only, this ye do not eat -- of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof -- the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof not dividing -- it `is' unclean to you; 5 and the rabbit, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof it divideth not -- unclean it `is' to you; 6 and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it `is' to you; 7 and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up -- unclean it `is' to you. 8 `Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they `are' to you. 9 `This ye do eat of all which `are' in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat; 10 and any one that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which liveth, which `is' in the waters -- an abomination they `are' to you; 11 yea, an abomination they are to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and their carcase ye abominate. 12 `Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it `is' to you. 13 `And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they `are': the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 14 and the vulture, and the kite after its kind, 15 every raven after its kind, 16 and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind, 17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, 18 and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, 19 and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 20 `Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four -- an abomination it `is' to you. 21 `Only -- this ye do eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which hath legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth; 22 these of them ye do eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind; 23 and every teeming thing which is flying, which hath four feet -- an abomination it `is' to you. 24 `And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening; 25 and anyone who is lifting up `aught' of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: -- 26 even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and the cud is not bringing up -- unclean they `are' to you; any one who is coming against them is unclean. 27 `And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four -- unclean they `are' to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening; 28 and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening -- unclean they `are' to you. 29 `And this `is' to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind, 30 and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole; 31 these `are' the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening. 32 `And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean; 33 and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which `any' one of them falleth, all that `is' in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break. 34 `Of all the food which is eaten, that on which cometh `such' water, is unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any `such' vessel is unclean; 35 and anything on which `any' of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they `are', yea, unclean they are to you. 36 `Only -- a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean; 37 and when `any' of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown -- it `is' clean; 38 and when water is put on the seed, and `any' of its carcase hath fallen on it -- unclean it `is' to you. 39 `And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening; 40 and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening. 41 `And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten; 42 any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth -- ye do not eat them, for they `are' an abomination; 43 ye do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do ye make yourselves unclean with them, so that ye have been unclean thereby. 44 `For I `am' Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I `am' holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth; 45 for I `am' Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I `am' holy. 46 `This `is' a law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth, 47 to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'
• Deut 14:3-9 : 3 `Thou dost not eat any abominable thing; 4 `this `is' the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats, 5 hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois; 6 and every beast dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts -- it ye do eat. 7 `Only, this ye do not eat, of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided; unclean they `are' to you; 8 and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not `bringing' up the cud, unclean it `is' to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come. 9 `This ye do eat of all that `are' in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat; 10 and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it `is' to you. 11 `Any clean bird ye do eat; 12 and these `are' they of which ye do not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after its kind, 14 and every raven after its kind; 15 and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind; 16 the `little' owl, and the `great' owl, and the swan, 17 and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat; 19 and every teeming thing which is flying, unclean it `is' to you; they are not eaten; 20 any clean fowl ye do eat. 21 `Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who `is' within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell `it' to a stranger; for a holy people thou `art' to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
• Matt 24:4 : 4 And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,
• Matt 24:24 : 24 for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.
• Acts 10:14-16 : 14 And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;' 15 and `there is' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;' 16 and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.