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Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

KJV

Πίστει καλούμενος Ἀβραὰμ ὑπήκουσεν ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τόπον ὃν ἤμελλεν λαμβάνειν εἰς κληρονομίαν, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν μὴ ἐπιστάμενος ποῦ ἔρχεται.

Greek NT

Fide qui vocatur Abraham obedivit in locum exire, quem accepturus erat in hæreditatem : et exiit, nesciens quo iret.

Vulgate

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

ASV

By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Douay-Rheims

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People Abraham

In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
κληρονομία
kleronomia
noun · 14×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
ποῦ
pou
adverb · 45×
τόπος
topos
noun · 95×
Ἀβραάμ
abraam
noun · 73×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
ἐπίσταμαι
epistamai
verb · 15×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑπακούω
upakouo
verb · 21×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Gen 12:1 · allusion
    "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:"
    Genesis: Abraham obeyed and went out not knowing where — by faith

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: Πίστει | WH/NIV/RP: Πίστει | Treg: + ὁ
  • ΠίστειSBLGNT
  • ΠίστειWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • + ὁTregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τόπον | WH/Treg/NIV: τόπον | RP: τὸν τόπον
  • τόπονSBLGNT
  • τόπονWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τὸν τόπονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

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

§145The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go."4 By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land.5 By faith, Sarah was given t…
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country. The call of Abram is the beginning of the visible Church as a separated people. God's promise that in Abram all families of the earth would be blessed is the great gospel promise, which finds its fulfillment in Christ. Abraham's obedience, leaving his country by faith, is commended by the apostle as the pattern of a…
Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the errors of the Manichæans. Chapter 1. Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. 1. To Carthage I came, where a cauldr…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
  • 1Pet 4:17 — For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
  • 2Cor 10:5 — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • 2Sam 24:19 — And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
  • 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Acts 7:2 — And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
  • Acts 7:3 — And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
  • Acts 12:9 — And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
  • Deut 9:5 — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and
  • Exod 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
  • Ezek 36:24 — For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  • Gal 3:1 — O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
  • Gal 5:6 — For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
  • Gal 5:7 — Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
  • Gen 11:31 — And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
  • Gen 11:31 — And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of
  • Gen 12:1 — Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
  • Gen 12:1 — Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
  • Gen 12:4 — So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
  • Gen 12:5 — And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan
  • Gen 12:7 — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
  • Gen 13:15 — For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
  • Gen 15:5 — And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
  • Gen 15:6 — And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
  • Gen 15:7 — And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
  • Gen 17:8 — And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 22:18 — And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
  • Gen 26:3 — Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father
  • Gen 26:5 — Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
  • Heb 5:9 — And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
  • Heb 5:9 — And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
  • Heb 6:12 — That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  • Heb 11:33 — Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • Isa 41:2 — Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bo
  • Isa 51:2 — Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Isa 51:2 — Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Jas 2:14 — What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
  • Job 36:11 — If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.