King James Version
Hebrews 5:8 in the King James Version says “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;” — study this verse from Hebrews chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;”
Hebrews 5:8 · KJV
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; in that: or, for his piety
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“a Son”
G5207a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship
“by”
G575"off," i.e., away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)
“the things which”
G3739the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
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