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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 by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. (Acts 7:53)
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Num. 15:31• 31Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. (Num. 15:31)

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Deut. 32:2• 2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: (Deut. 32:2)
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Psa. 68:17• 17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. (Psa. 68:17)
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Acts 7:53• 53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. (Acts 7:53)
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Gal. 3:19• 19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (Gal. 3:19)
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Heb. 10:28• 28He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (Heb. 10:28)
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Ex. 32:27‑28• 27And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
 28And the children 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 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
 2And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. (Lev. 10:1‑2)
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Lev. 24:14‑16• 14Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
 15And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
 16And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death. (Lev. 24:14‑16)
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Num. 11:33• 33And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. (Num. 11:33)
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Num. 14:28‑37• 28Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
 29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
 30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
 31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
 32But as for you, your carcases, they 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 searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
 35I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
 36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
 37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord. (Num. 14:28‑37)
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Num. 15:30‑36• 30But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
 31Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
 32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
 33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
 34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
 35And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
 36And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses. (Num. 15:30‑36)
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Num. 16:31‑35,49• 31And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
 32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
 33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
 34And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
 35And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
 49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about 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 rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
 12And 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. (Num. 20:11‑12)
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Num. 21:6• 6And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they 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 and four thousand. (Num. 25:9)
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Deut. 4:3‑4• 3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
 4But ye that did cleave unto the Lord 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 among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
 5Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
 12And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. (Deut. 17:2,5,12)
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Deut. 27:26• 26Cursed be he that confirmeth not all 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• 5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
 7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
 10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
 11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
 12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor. 10:5‑12)
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Jude 5• 5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. (Jude 5)
recompense.
Heb. 10:35• 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. (Heb. 10:35)
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Heb. 11:6,26• 6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. (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.