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Hebrews 2

Heb. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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gar (Greek #1063)
properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
KJV usage: and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.
Pronounce: gar
Origin: a primary particle
if
ei (Greek #1487)
if, whether, that, etc.
KJV usage: forasmuch as, if, that, (al-)though, whether. Often used in connection or composition with other particles, especially as in 1489, 1490, 1499, 1508, 1509, 1512, 1513, 1536, 1537. See also 1437.
Pronounce: i
Origin: a primary particle of conditionality
the word
logos (Greek #3056)
something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ)
KJV usage: account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Pronounce: log'-os
Origin: from 3004
spoken
laleo (Greek #2980)
to talk, i.e. utter words
KJV usage: preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. Compare 3004.
Pronounce: lal-eh'-o
Origin: a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb
by
dia (Greek #1223)
through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)
KJV usage: after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) ... fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in). In composition it retains the same general importance.
Pronounce: dee-ah'
Origin: a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act
angels
aggelos (Greek #32)
a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor
KJV usage: angel, messenger.
Pronounce: ang'-el-os
Origin: from ἀγγέλλω (probably derived from 71; compare 34) (to bring tidings)
l was
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
stedfast
bebaios (Greek #949)
stable (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: firm, of force, stedfast, sure.
Pronounce: beb'-ah-yos
Origin: from the base of 939 (through the idea of basality)
, and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
every
pas (Greek #3956)
apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole
KJV usage: all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
Pronounce: pas
Origin: including all the forms of declension
transgression
parabasis (Greek #3847)
violation
KJV usage: breaking, transgression.
Pronounce: par-ab'-as-is
Origin: from 3845
m and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
disobedience
parakoe (Greek #3876)
inattention, i.e. (by implication) disobedience
KJV usage: disobedience.
Pronounce: par-ak-o-ay'
Origin: from 3878
received
lambano (Greek #2983)
to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas 1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while 138 is more violent, to seize or remove))
KJV usage: accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).
Pronounce: lam-ban'-o
Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is use only as an alternate in certain tenses
a
misthapodosia (Greek #3405)
requital (good or bad)
KJV usage: recompence of reward.
Pronounce: mis-thap-od-os-ee'-ah
Origin: from 3406
just
endikos (Greek #1738)
in the right, i.e. equitable
KJV usage: just.
Pronounce: en'-dee-kos
Origin: from 1722 and 1349
recompence of reward
misthapodosia (Greek #3405)
requital (good or bad)
KJV usage: recompence of reward.
Pronounce: mis-thap-od-os-ee'-ah
Origin: from 3406
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ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
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Acts 7:53• 53who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it. (Acts 7:53)
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Num. 15:31• 31For he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment: that soul shall surely be cut off; his iniquity is upon him. (Num. 15:31)

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Ministry on This Verse

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spoken.
Deut. 32:2• 2My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass. (Deut. 32:2)
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Psa. 68:17• 17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness. (Psa. 68:17)
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Acts 7:53• 53who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it. (Acts 7:53)
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Gal. 3:19• 19Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator. (Gal. 3:19)
every.
Heb. 10:28• 28Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses: (Heb. 10:28)
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Ex. 32:27‑28• 27And he said to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his hip; go and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour.
 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. (Ex. 32:27‑28)
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Lev. 10:1‑2• 1And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
 2And there went out fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah. (Lev. 10:1‑2)
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Lev. 24:14‑16• 14Lead the reviler outside the camp; and all that heard him shall lay their hands upon his head, and the whole assembly shall stone him.
 15And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Every one when he revileth his God shall bear his sin.
 16And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah shall certainly be put to death; all the assembly shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger as he that is home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name, shall be put to death. (Lev. 24:14‑16)
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Num. 11:33• 33The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, when the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague. (Num. 11:33)
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Num. 14:28‑37• 28Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
 29In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
 30shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 31But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
 32And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
 33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
 34After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you.
 35I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
 36And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,
 37even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah. (Num. 14:28‑37)
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Num. 15:30‑36• 30But the soul that doeth ought with a high hand, whether born in the land, or a stranger, he reproacheth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 31For he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment: that soul shall surely be cut off; his iniquity is upon him.
 32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.
 33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to the whole assembly.
 34And they put him in custody, for it was not declared what should be done to him.
 35And Jehovah said to Moses, The man shall certainly be put to death: the whole assembly shall stone him with stones outside the camp.
 36And the whole assembly led him outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as Jehovah had commanded Moses. (Num. 15:30‑36)
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Num. 16:31‑35,49• 31And it came to pass when he had ended speaking all these words, that the ground clave apart that was under them.
 32And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.
 33And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Sheol, and the earth covered them; and they perished from among the congregation.
 34And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up!
 35And there came out a fire from Jehovah, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that had presented incense.
 49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides them that had died because of the matter of Korah. (Num. 16:31‑35,49)
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Num. 20:11‑12• 11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts.
 12And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to hallow me before the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them. (Num. 20:11‑12)
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Num. 21:6• 6Then Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit the people; and much people of Israel died. (Num. 21:6)
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Num. 25:9• 9And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. (Num. 25:9)
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Deut. 4:3‑4• 3Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-Peor; for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you;
 4but ye that did cleave to Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day. (Deut. 4:3‑4)
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Deut. 17:2,5,12• 2If there be found in thy midst in any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth what is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
 5thou shalt bring forth that man or that woman, who committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, the man or the woman, and shalt stone them with stones, that they die.
 12And the man that shall act presumptuously, and not hearken unto the priest that standeth to serve there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, that man shall die; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel. (Deut. 17:2,5,12)
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Deut. 27:26• 26Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:26)
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1 Cor. 10:5‑12• 5yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.
 6But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
 7Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 9Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.
 10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
 11Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.
 12So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor. 10:5‑12)
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Jude 5• 5But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed. (Jude 5)
recompense.
Heb. 10:35• 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense. (Heb. 10:35)
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Heb. 11:6,26• 6But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.
 26esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense. (Heb. 11:6,26)
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Heb. 11•  (Heb. 11)
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• God had maintained the authority of the word that was communicated by means of angels, punishing disobedience to it, for it was a law. (“Hebrews 2” by J.N. Darby)
• If there was no escape from the consequences of disobeying the law given by the disposition of angels, still less will there be any escape for the one who, having nominally made a profession of Christianity, treats the word of Christ with indifference and gives it up to return to Judaism. (“The Authority of the Word of the Son: Hebrews 2:1-4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For if the word which was spoken by angels wasq firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

JND Translation Notes

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That is, was so when given; all is in the aorist here, or a truth as to the past.

W. Kelly Translation

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For if the word spoken by angels was made firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retributiona,

WK Translation Notes

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The word "retribution" is better English in our text, while "recompense" fits in Heb. 10:35, 11:26. The KJV, "recompense of reward," misled the Revisers’ version in this unusual excess of sameness.