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Hebrews 11:37 — King James Version← Study notes

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;


Hebrews 11:37Greek Interlinear

Greek · Hebrews 11:3715 words
GreekMeaning
ἐλιθάσθησανelithasthēsan
They were stonedverbG3034
ἐπρίσθησανepristhēsan
they were sawed in twoverbG4249
ἐνen
byprepositionG1722
φόνῳphonō
slaughternounG5408
μαχαίρηςmachairēs
of the swordnounG3162
ἀπέθανονapethanon
they were killedverbG599
περιῆλθονperiēlthon
they wanderedverbG4022
ἐνen
inprepositionG1722
μηλωταῖςmēlōtais
sheepskinsnounG3374
ἐνen
inprepositionG1722
αἰγείοιςaigeiois
goats’adjectiveG122
δέρμασινdermasin
skinsnounG1192
ὑστερούμενοιhysteroumenoi
being destituteverbG5302
θλιβόμενοιthlibomenoi
being oppressedverbG2346
κακουχούμενοιkakouchoumenoi
testedverbG3985
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:37

At all times indeed, but especially then when I reflect upon the achievements of the saints, it comes over me to feel despondency concerning my own condition, because we have not even in dreams experienced the things among which those men spent their whole lives, not paying the penalty of sins, but always doing rightly and yet always afflicted. For consider, I beseech you, Elijah, to whom our discourse has come round today, for he speaks of him in this passage, and in him…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Homily 28 on Hebrews
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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