Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
KJV
οὗ ἐπείρασαν οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη·
Greek NT
ubi tentaverunt me patres vestri : probaverunt, et viderunt opera mea
Vulgate
Where your fathers triedmeby proving me, And saw my works forty years.
ASV
Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δοκιμή
dokime
noun · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὗ
ou
adverb · 24×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πειράζω
peirazo
verb · 38×
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakonta
adjective · 22×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ἔτος
etos
noun · 49×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἐπείρασαν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπείρασαν | RP: + με
- ἐπείρασαν — SBLGNT
- ἐπείρασαν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + με — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ | RP: ἐδοκιμασάν με
- ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ — SBLGNT
- ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐδοκιμασάν με — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end Hebrews 3:6; next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures. But be attentive, because he has expressed this in a manner somewhat difficult and not readily to be comprehended. And t…
Cross-references
- Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
- Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
- Acts 15:10 — Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Deut 4:3 — Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
- Deut 4:9 — Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
- Deut 8:4 — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- Exod 17:2 — Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
- Exod 19:4 — Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
- Matt 4:7 — Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
- Matt 19:3 — The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
- Ps 95:10 — Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: