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Read›Hebrews›Chapter 5

Milk and Solid Food

Hebrews 5:11

In 9 translations

BSB
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
KJV
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
WEB
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
ASV
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.
LSV
concerning the Word, of whom we have much [to speak], and of hard explanation to say, since you have become dull of hearing,
YLT
concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
DBY
Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking [of it], since ye are become dull in hearing.
DRC
Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.
GNV
Of whome we haue many things to say, which are hard to be vttered, because ye are dull of hearing.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Περὶ οὗ πολὺς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος καὶ δυσερμήνευτος λέγειν, ἐπεὶ νωθροὶ γεγόνατε ταῖς ἀκοαῖς·
RP2018
Περὶ οὗ πολὺς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος καὶ δυσερμήνευτος λέγειν, ἐπεὶ νωθροὶ γεγόνατε ταῖς ἀκοαῖς.
TR-Boyd
Περὶ οὗ πολὺς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος καὶ δυσερμήνευτος λέγειν, ἐπεὶ νωθροὶ γεγόνατε ταῖς ἀκοαῖς.
SCR1894
περι ου πολυς ημιν ο λογος και δυσερμηνευτος λεγειν επει νωθροι γεγονατε ταις ακοαις

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and…
  • 2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their…
  • Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and…
  • John 16:12I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
  • Isaiah 6:10Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
  • Mark 8:21Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?”
  • Luke 24:25Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  • John 6:6But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.
  • Mark 8:17–18Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts? ‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not…
  • 1 Kings 10:1Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.

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