Hebrews 3:5

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And Moses verely was faythfull in all his housse as a minister to beare witnes of tho thinges which shuld be spoken afterwarde.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ Μωϋσῆς μὲν πιστὸς ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ, ὡς θεράπων, εἰς μαρτύριον τῶν λαληθησομένων·

Transliteration

And Mōysēs men pistos in holō the oikō of him, as therapōn, eis martyrion of the things lalēthēsomenōn;

Grammar Details

• *Mōysēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - Moses
• *men*: postpositive particle - indeed/on one hand (often paired with δέ)
• *pistos*: nominative, masculine, singular - faithful/trustworthy
• *holō*: dative, masculine, singular - whole/all/entire
• *oikō*: dative, masculine, singular - house/household
• *therapōn*: nominative, masculine, singular - servant/attendant
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - for/unto/as
• *martyrion*: accusative, neuter, singular - testimony/witness
• *lalēthēsomenōn*: future passive participle, genitive, neuter, plural - of things to be spoken

Word Meanings

• *men*: indeed/truly/on one hand
• *pistos*: faithful/trustworthy/reliable
• *holō*: whole/entire/complete
• *oikō*: house/household/family
• *therapōn*: servant/attendant/minister (higher class than a regular servant)
• *martyrion*: testimony/witness/evidence
• *lalēthēsomenōn*: things that would be spoken/things to be uttered later

Referenced Verses

• Num 12:7 : 7 But my servaunte Moses is not so which is faythfull in all myne housse.
• Heb 3:2 : 2 which was faythfull to him that made him even as was Moses in all his housse.
• Exod 14:31 : 31 And when Israel sawe that myghtye hande which the Lorde had shewed vppo the Egiptians, they feared the Lorde: and beleued both the Lorde and also his servaunte Moses
• Heb 8:5 : 5 offer giftes which prestes serve vnto ye ensample and shadowe of hevenly thynges: even as the answer of God was geven vnto Moses when he was about to fynnishe the tabernacle: Take hede (sayde he) that thou make all thynges accordynge to the patrone shewed to the in the mount.
• 1 Cor 4:2 : 2 Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull.
• 1 Tim 1:12 : 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hath made me stronge: for he counted me true and put me in office
• Deut 34:5 : 5 So Moses the seruaunte of the Lorde dyed there in the londe of Moab at the commaundment of the Lorde.
• Matt 24:45 : 45 If there be any faithfull servaut and wyse whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve the meate in season covenient:
• Matt 25:21 : 21 The his master sayde vnto him: well good servaut and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I will make the ruler over moche: entre in into thy masters ioye.
• Luke 12:42 : 42 And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:
• Luke 16:10-12 : 10 He that is faithfull in that which is leste ye same is faithfull in moche. And he yt is vnfaithfull in ye least: is vnfaithfull also in moche. 11 So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in ye wicked mamon? who will beleve you in that which is true? 12 And yf ye have not bene faithfull in another manes busines: who shall geve you youre awne?
• Luke 24:27 : 27 And he began at Moses and at all the prophetes and interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were wrytten of him.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he sayde vnto the. These are the wordes which I spake vnto you whyll I was yet with you: that all must be fulfilled which were written of me in the lawe of Moses and in the Prophetes and in the Psalmes.
• John 5:39 : 39 Searche the scriptures for in them ye thinke ye have eternall lyfe: and they are they which testify of me.
• John 5:46-47 : 46 For had ye beleved Moses ye wold have beleved me: for he wrote of me. 47 But now ye beleve not his writinge: how shall ye beleve my wordes.
• Acts 3:22-23 : 22 For Moses sayd vnto the fathers: A Prophet shall the Lorde youre God rayse vp vnto you even of youre brethren lyke vnto me: him shall ye heare in all thinges whatsoever he shall saye vnto you. 23 For the tyme will come yt every soule which shall not heare that same Prophet shalbe destroyed from amonge the people.
• Acts 7:37 : 37 This is that Moses which sayde vnto the chyldre of Israel: A Prophet shall the Lorde youre God rayse vp vnto you of youre brethren lyke vnto me him shall ye heare.
• Acts 28:23 : 23 And when they had apoynted him a daye ther came many vnto him into his lodgynge. To whom he expounded and testifyed the kyngdome of God and preached vnto the of Iesu: both out of the lawe of Moses and also out of the prophetes even from mornynge to nyght.
• Rom 3:21 : 21 Now verely is ye rigtewesnes that cometh of God declared without the fulfillinge of ye lawe havinge witnes yet of ye lawe and of the Prophetes.
• Deut 3:24 : 24 O LORde Iehoua, thou hast begonne to shewe thy servaunte thy greatnesse and thy mightie hande for there is no God in heauen nor in erth that can do after thy workes and after thy power:
• Deut 18:15-19 : 15 The Lorde thy God will sterre vpp a prophete amonge you: eue of thy brethern like vnto me: and vnto him ye shall herken 16 acording to all that thou desyredest of the Lorde thy god in Horeb in the daye when the people were gathered sayenge: Let me heare the voyce of my Lorde God nomoare nor se this greate fire any moare, that I dye not. 17 And the Lorde sayed vnto me: they haue well spoken, 18 I will rayse them vpp a prophett from amonge their brethern like vnto the ad will put my wordes in to his mouth and he shall speake vnto the al that I shall commaunde him. 19 And whosoeuer will not kerken vnto the wordes which he shall speake in my name, I will requyre it off him.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places that are made with hondes which are but similitudes of true thynges: but is entred into very heven for to appere now in the syght of God for vs:
• 1 Pet 1:10-12 : 10 Of which salvacion have the Prophetes enquyred and searched which prophisied of ye grace that shuld come vnto you 11 searchinge whe or at what tyme the sprete of Christ which was in them shuld signifie which sprete testified before the passions that shuld come vnto Christ and the glory that shuld folowe after: 12 vnto which Prophetes it was declared that not vnto them selves but vnto vs they shuld minister the thinges which are now shewed vnto you of them which by ye holy goost sent doune fro heven have preached vnto you the thinges which the angels desyre to beholde.
• Heb 9:8-9 : 8 Wherwith ye holy goost this signifyeng yt the waye of holy thynges was not yet opened whill as yet ye fyrst tabernacle was stondynge. 9 Which was a similitude for the tyme then present and in which were offered gyftes and sacrifises that coulde not make them that minister parfecte as pertaynynge to the conscienc 10 with only meates and drinkes and divers wesshynges and iustifyinges of the flesshe which were ordeyned vntyll the tyme of reformacion. 11 But Christ beynge an hye prest of good thynges to come came by a greater and a moare parfecte tabernacle not made with hondes: that is to saye not of this maner bildyng 12 nether by the bloud of gotes and calves: but by his awne bloud we entred once for all into the holy place and founde eternall redemcion. 13 For yf the bloud of oxen and of Gotes and the asshes of an heyfer whe it was sprynckled puryfied the vnclene as touchynge the purifiynge of the flesshe: