16 For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Hebrews 2:16. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται.
Οὐ
γὰρ
δήπου
ἀγγέλων
ἐπιλαμβάνεται
- Lemma
- epilambanetai
- Transliteration
- epilambanetai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present middle/passive deponent indicative singular
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G1949
- Occurrences
- 2
ἀλλὰ
σπέρματος
Ἀβραὰμ
ἐπιλαμβάνεται
- Lemma
- epilambanetai
- Transliteration
- epilambanetai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present middle/passive deponent indicative singular
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G1949
- Occurrences
- 2
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
οὐ γὰρ δήπου ἀγγέλων ἐπιλαμβάνεται, ἀλλὰ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ἐπιλαμβάνεται.
ἐπιλαμβάνεται,
- Lemma
- ἐπιλαμβάνομαι
- Morphology
- V-PNI-3S
- Part of Speech
- V
- Strong's
- G1949
- Occurrences
- 19
ἐπιλαμβάνεται.
- Lemma
- ἐπιλαμβάνομαι
- Morphology
- V-PNI-3S
- Part of Speech
- V
- Strong's
- G1949
- Occurrences
- 19
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܠܐ ܗܘܐ ܓܝܪ ܥܠ ܡܠܐܟܐ ܡܫܠܛ ܗܘܐ ܡܘܬܐ ܐܠܐ ܥܠ ܙܪܥܗ ܕܐܒܪܗܡ ܡܫܠܛ ܗܘܐ
ܠܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܠܐ
- Transliteration
- la
- Morphology
- negative particle
- Gloss
- not
- Occurrences
- 1681
ܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- hwa
- Morphology
- verb, being/becoming root form
- Gloss
- was, became
- Occurrences
- 1535
ܓܝܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܓܝܪ
- Transliteration
- gyr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1085
ܥܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܠ
- Transliteration
- 'l
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 909
ܡܠܐܟܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܠܐܟܐ
- Transliteration
- ml'k'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 95
ܡܫܠܛ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܫܠܛ
- Transliteration
- mshlt
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 2
ܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- hwa
- Morphology
- verb, being/becoming root form
- Gloss
- was, became
- Occurrences
- 1535
ܡܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- mwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 47
ܐܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܠܐ
- Transliteration
- 'l'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 784
ܥܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܠ
- Transliteration
- 'l
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 909
ܙܪܥܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܙܪܥܗ
- Transliteration
- zr'h
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 12
ܕܐܒܪܗܡ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܐܒܪܗܡ
- Transliteration
- d'brhm
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 24
ܡܫܠܛ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܫܠܛ
- Transliteration
- mshlt
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 2
ܗܘܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘܐ
- Transliteration
- hwa
- Morphology
- verb, being/becoming root form
- Gloss
- was, became
- Occurrences
- 1535
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Nusquam enim angelos apprehendit, sed semen Abrahæ apprehendit.
nusquam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nusquam
- Transliteration
- nusquam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 2
enim
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- enim
- Transliteration
- enim
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2392
angelos
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- angelus
- Transliteration
- angelos
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 326
adprehendit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- apprehendo
- Transliteration
- adprehendit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 156
sed
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sed
- Transliteration
- sed
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1637
semen
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- semen
- Transliteration
- semen
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 287
Abrahae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Abraham
- Transliteration
- Abrahae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 214
adprehendit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- apprehendo
- Transliteration
- adprehendit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 156
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.
8 relevance votesGalatians 3:16
Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.
5 relevance votesGenesis 22:18
And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
3 relevance votesRomans 2:25
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
1 relevance votesHebrews 12:10
For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
1 relevance votesHebrews 6:16
For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
1 relevance votes1 Peter 1:20
Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
0 relevance votes