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Hebrews 11:20

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

KJV

πίστει περὶ μελλόντων εὐλόγησεν Ἰσαὰκ τὸν Ἰακὼβ καὶ τὸν Ἠσαῦ.

Greek NT

Fide et de futuris benedixit Isaac Jacob et Esau.

Vulgate

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

ASV

By faith also of things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People IsaacEsauJacobJacob

In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εὐλογέω
eulogeo
verb · 41×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
Ἠσαῦ
esau
noun · 3×
Ἰακώβ
iakob
noun · 27×
Ἰσαάκ
isaak
noun · 20×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: καὶ
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Gen 27:4 — And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
  • Gen 27:23 — And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
  • Gen 27:27 — And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
  • Gen 27:27 — And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
  • Gen 27:39 — And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
  • Gen 28:2 — Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
  • Heb 7:7 — And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
  • Num 6:23 — Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,