translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “through angels became valid and every violation.”


text: Grk “God bearing witness together” (the phrase “with them” is implied).


text: Grk “and distributions of the Holy Spirit.”


text: Grk “remember him.”


text: Ï ). In spite of the impressive external evidence for the longer reading, it is most likely a scribal addition to conform the text of Hebrews to Ps 8:6 ( 8:7 LXX). Conformity of a NT quotation of the OT to the LXX was a routine scribal activity, and can hardly be in doubt here as to the cause of the longer reading.


text: Grk “you subjected all things under his feet.” sn A quotation from Ps 8:4-6 .


text: Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”


text: Grk “because of the suffering of death.”


text: Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).


text: Grk “for whom are all things and through whom are all things.”


text: Grk “are all from one.”


text: Grk “for which reason.”


text: Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [ adelfoi ] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited). The context here also indicates both men and women are in view; note especially the collective τὰ παιδία ( ta paidia ) in v. 14 .


text: Here, because of its occurrence in an OT quotation, τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ( tois adelfois ) has been translated simply as “brothers” rather than “brothers and sisters” (see the note on the latter phrase in the previous verse).


text: Grk “and again,” as a continuation of the preceding.


text: Grk “behold, I,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).


text: Grk “and.”


text: Or “partook of” (this is a different word than the one in v. 14 a).


text: Grk “the same.”


text: Or “break the power of,” “reduce to nothing.”


text: Or “he was obligated.”


text: Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11 .


text: Or “propitiation.”