2 Corinthians 3:7
New Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
λειτουργία
leitourgía
public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver)
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
כָּתַב
kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
English grammatical function word ('engraven'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalen...
כָּבוֹד
kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
כָּבוֹד
kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
כָּבוֹד
kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('engraven'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are r...
Study GRAM →λειτουργία leitourgía
public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver)
Study G3009 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →כָּבוֹד kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
Study H3519 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →כָּתַב kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
Study H3789 →מָוֶת mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Study H4194 →כָּבוֹד kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
Study H3519 →כָּבוֹד kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
Study H3519 →Cross References
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the h...
And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount...
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two...
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