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Hebrews 12:16 Interlinear

“Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for morsel of meat sold birthright ”

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Hebrews 12 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	μή	G3361	Lest	(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas g3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
2	τις	G5100	there be any	some or any person or object
3	πόρνος	G4205	fornicator	a (male) prostitute (as venal), i.e., (by analogy) a debauchee (libertine)
4	ἢ	G2228	or	disjunctive, or; comparative, than
5	βέβηλος	G952	profane person	accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e., (by implication, of jewish notions) heathenish, wicked
6	ὡς	G5613	as	which how, i.e., in that manner (very variously used, as follows)
7	Ἠσαῦ	G2269	Esau	esau, an edomite
8	ὃς	G3739	who	the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
9	ἀντὶ	G473	for	opposite, i.e., instead or because of (rarely in addition to)
10	βρώσεως	G1035	morsel of meat	(abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively)
11	μιᾶς	G1520		one
12	ἀπέδοτο	G591	sold	to give away, i.e., up, over, back, etc. (in various applications)
13	τὰ	G3588		the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
14	πρωτοτόκια	G4415	birthright	primogeniture (as a privilege)
15	αὐτοῦ	G846		the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons

Hebrews 12:16 (current)Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for morsel of meat sold birthright