HEBREWS 8:12

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”

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Hebrews 8:12 Translation & Meaning

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KJV Verse Original Greek Meaning/ Definition
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For ὅτι Demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because For
I will be ἔσομαι Will be I will be
merciful ἵλεως Cheerful (as attractive), i.e., propitious; adverbially (by Hebraism) God be gracious!, i.e., (in averting some calamity) far be it merciful
to ἀδικίαις (legal) injustice (properly, the quality, by implication, the act); morally, wrongfulness (of character, life or act) to
their αὐτῶν The reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons their
unrighteousness, ἀδικίαις (legal) injustice (properly, the quality, by implication, the act); morally, wrongfulness (of character, life or act) unrighteousness
and καὶ And, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words and
their αὐτῶν The reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons their
sins ἁμαρτιῶν A sin (properly abstract) sins
and καὶ And, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words and
their αὐτῶν, The reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons their
iniquities ἀνομιῶν Illegality, i.e., violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness iniquities
will I remember μνησθῶ To bear in mind, i.e., recollect; by implication, to reward or punish remember
no οὐ The absolute negative (compare G3361) adverb; no or not no
more. ἔτι "yet," still (of time or degree) more

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  • 10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  • 11  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

  • 12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

  • 13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.




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