Hebrews 9:23
New Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
חֹק
chôq
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
ὑπόδειγμα
hypódeigma
an exhibit for imitation or warning (figuratively, specimen, adumbration)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
טָהֵר
ṭâhêr
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
טוֹב
ṭôwb
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good...
זֶבַח
zebach
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
Key Terms in This Verse
ὑπόδειγμα hypódeigma
an exhibit for imitation or warning (figuratively, specimen, adumbration)
Study G5262 →חֹק chôq
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Study H2706 →טָהֵר ṭâhêr
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
Study H2891 →זֶבַח zebach
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
Study H2077 →טוֹב ṭôwb
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goo...
Study H2896 →שָׁמַיִם shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
Study H8064 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the patter...
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and p...
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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