Romans 4:1
New Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
אַבְרָהָם
ʼAbrâhâm
Abraham, the later name of Abram
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
מָצָא
mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →מָצָא mâtsâʼ
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
Study H4672 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →Cross References
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who ...
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto...
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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