King James Version
Hebrews 3:15 in the King James Version says “While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.” — study this verse from Hebrews chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.”
Hebrews 3:15 · KJV
But exhort one another daily , while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“it is said”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“To day”
G4594on the (i.e., this) day (or night current or just passed); generally, now (i.e., at present, hitherto)
“if”
G1437a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.; often used in connection with other particles to denote indefiniteness or uncertainty
“voice”
G5456a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication, an address (for any purpose), saying or language
“his”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“not”
G3361(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas g3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
“hearts”
G2588the heart, i.e., (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle
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