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Hebrews 11:12 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 11 · verse 12
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.Hebrews 11:12 · King James Version
Hebrews 11:12 in context
10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
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Key words (Strong's)
- multitudeplēthosa multitude, a great number, of men or things, the whole number, the whole multitude, the…G4128 →
- starsastrona group of stars, a constellation, a starG798 →
- shorecheilosa lip, of the speaking mouth, metaph. the sea shoreG5491 →
- deadnekroōto make dead, to put to death, slay, worn out, of an impotent old man, to deprive of…G3499 →
- sandammossand, sandy groundG285 →
- skyouranosthe vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it, the universe, the world…G3772 →
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The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old Testament times, and these may be divided into two classes: - 1. Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. 2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-31