Hebrews 11:14
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
KJV
οἱ γὰρ τοιαῦτα λέγοντες ἐμφανίζουσιν ὅτι πατρίδα ἐπιζητοῦσιν.
Greek NT
Qui enim hæc dicunt, significant se patriam inquirere.
Vulgate
For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own.
ASV
For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πατρίς
patris
noun · 8×
τοιοῦτος
toioutos
demonstrative · 57×
ἐμφανίζω
emphanizo
verb · 10×
ἐπιζητέω
epizeteo
verb · 13×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Yea, says one, Herod you have full well deprived of excuse, and proved him bloodthirsty; but you have not yet solved the question about the injustice of what took place. For if he did unjustly, wherefore did God permit it? Now, what should we say to this? That which I do not cease to say continually, in church, in the market-place and everywhere; that which I also wish you c…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 4:18 — While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Heb 11:16 — But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
- Heb 11:16 — But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
- Heb 13:14 — For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
- John 14:2 — In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
- Rev 5:9 — 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
- Rom 3:25 — Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;