KJV King James Version
These 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hebrews 11:13
These 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
WEB World English Bible
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
ASV American Standard Version
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
Surrounding context — Hebrews 11
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.
11 Through 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.
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.
13 These 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.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΚατὰG2596 · kataaccording toπίστινG4102 · pistisfaithἀπέθανονG599 · apothnēskōto dieοὗτοιG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itπάντεςG3956 · pasallμὴG3361 · mēnotλαβόντεςG2983 · lambanōto takeτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐπαγγελίαςG1860 · epangeliapromiseἀλλὰG235 · allabutπόρρωθενG4207 · porrōthenafar offαὐτὰςG846 · autosit/s/heἰδόντεςG1492 · eidōto perceive: understandκαὶG2532 · kaiandἀσπασάμενοιG782 · aspazomaito pay respects toκαὶG2532 · kaiandὁμολογήσαντεςG3670 · homologeōto confess/professὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatξένοιG3581 · xenosforeignκαὶG2532 · kaiandπαρεπίδημοίG3927 · parepidēmosstrangerεἰσινG1510 · eimito beἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoγῆς.G1093 · gēearth: planet
Cross-references
Psalm 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].Genesis 23:4I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.Hebrews 11:27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.John 8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw [it], and was glad.Romans 8:24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;Hebrews 11:39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:1 Chronicles 29:14-15But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.Ephesians 2:19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;Genesis 27:2-4And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.Genesis 49:18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.Job 19:25For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:1 Peter 1:10-12Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you:Romans 4:21And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.Genesis 25:8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.1 Peter 1:17And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:Genesis 49:33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
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