King James Version
Hebrews 3:16 in the King James Version says “For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.” — study this verse from Hebrews chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.”
Hebrews 3:16 · KJV
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?
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
“howbeit”
G235properly, other things, i.e., (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations)
“out of”
G1537a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause literal or figurative; direct
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