Hebrews 5:12
New Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עֵת
ʻêth
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
διδάσκαλος
didáskalos
an instructor (genitive case or specially)
חָסֵר
châçêr
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
לָמַד
lâmad
properly, to goad, i.e. (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive)
רִאשׁוֹן
riʼshôwn
first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
στοιχεῖον
stoicheîon
something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively)
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
הָיָה
hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
חָסֵר
châçêr
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
חָזָק
châzâq
strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent)
Key Terms in This Verse
στοιχεῖον stoicheîon
something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively)
Study G4747 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →לָמַד lâmad
properly, to goad, i.e. (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive)
Study H3925 →הָיָה hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Study H1961 →Cross References
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be brok...
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be p...
He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
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