HEB 3:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

GHT for every house is-being-equip-ized/furnished under of {someone}; moreover, the God [is] equip-ize[ing]/furnish[ing] the all,

ULT For every house is built by someone, but God, is the one having built all things.

UST No UST HEB 3:4 verse available

BSB And every house is built by someone, but God [is] the builder of everything.

MSB And every house is built by someone, but God [is] the builder of everything.

BLB For every house is built by someone, but the One having built everything is God.

AICNT for every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

OEB For every house has its founder, and the founder of the universe is God.

WEBBE & WMBB For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

NET For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

LSV For every house is built by someone, and He who built all things [is] God,

FBV Every house has its builder; God is the builder of everything.

TCNT For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

T4T No T4T HEB 3:4 verse available

LEB For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God.

BBE For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

Moff (Every house is founded by someone, but God is the founder of all.)

Wymth For every house has had a builder, and the builder of all things is God.

ASV For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.

DRA For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things, is God.

YLT for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build [is] God,

Drby For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] [fn]God.

3.4 Elohim

RV For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God.
(For every house is built by some one; but he that built all things is God.)

SLT For every house is built by somebody; and he having built all things, God.

Wbstr For every house is built by some man ; but he that built all things is God.

KJB-1769 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
(For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.)

KJB-1611 For euery house is builded by some man, but hee that built all things is God.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps For euery house is buylded of some man: But he that buylded all thynges, is God.
(For every house is built of some man: But he that built all things, is God.)

Gnva For euery house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God.
(For every house is built of some man, and he that hath/has built all things, is God.)

Cvdl For euery house is prepared of some ma: but he that ordeyned all thinges, is God.
(For every house is prepared of some ma: but he that ordained all things, is God.)

TNT Every housse is prepared of some man. But he that ordeyned all thinges is god.
(Every house is prepared of some man. But he that ordained all things is god.)

Wycl For ech hous is maad of sum man; he that made alle thingis of nouyt is God.
(For each house is made of some man; he that made all things of naught/nothing is God.)

Luth Denn ein jeglich Haus wird von jemand bereitet; der aber alles bereitet, das ist GOtt.
(Because a any house becomes from someone prepared; the/of_the but all/everything prepared, the is God.)

ClVg Omnis namque domus fabricatur ab aliquo: qui autem omnia creavit, Deus est.[fn]
(Everyone for_indeed/truly home carpenterscatur away somewhere: who/which however everything created, God it_is.)

3.4 Omnis namque domus, etc. Fabricavit dico, per se enim non potest fieri, sed ab aliquo. An ideo a Christo? Vere, quia Deus est qui facit domum, et omnia. Qui autem omnia creavit, et domum. Deus est. Utriusque enim domus tam ejus quam rexit Moyses, quam ejus quam erexit Christus, factor est Deus.

3.4 Everyone for_indeed/truly home, etc. Fabricavit I_mean/say, through himself because not/no can to_be_done, but away somewhere. An therefore/for_that_reason from to_Christ/Messiah? Truly/Really, because God it_is who/which he/it_does house/home, and everything. Who however everything created, and house/home. God it_is. Both because home tam his/her how kingit Moses, how his/her how erected Christ/Messiah, doner it_is God.

UGNT πᾶς γὰρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινος; ὁ δὲ πάντα κατασκευάσας Θεός.
(pas gar oikos kataskeuazetai hupo tinos; ho de panta kataskeuasas Theos.)

SBL-GNT πᾶς γὰρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινος, ὁ ⸀δὲ πάντα κατασκευάσας θεός.
(pas gar oikos kataskeuazetai hupo tinos, ho ⸀de panta kataskeuasas theos.)

RP-GNT Πᾶς γὰρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινος· ὁ δὲ τὰ πάντα κατασκευάσας θεός.
(Pas gar oikos kataskeuazetai hupo tinos; ho de ta panta kataskeuasas theos.)

TC-GNT πᾶς γὰρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινος, ὁ δὲ [fn]τὰ πάντα κατασκευάσας Θεός.
(pas gar oikos kataskeuazetai hupo tinos, ho de ta panta kataskeuasas Theos.)

3:4 τα ¦ — ᴄᴛ

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 3:1–6: Jesus is greater than Moses

In this section the author explained how Jesus is greater than Moses. Moses was faithful as a servant in God’s house, but Jesus is God’s Son. He is faithful as a Son, taking care of God’s household for God. Because of that he is worthy of more honor than Moses.

Some other examples of headings for this section are:

Moses was God’s faithful servant, but Jesus was God’s faithful Son

Jesus and Moses (NET)

Some English versions include all of chapter 3 in one section. However, Section 3:7–19 is the second of the important warning sections in the book of Hebrews. (The first warning was in 2:1–4.) It is often helpful to readers to provide separate headings for each of these warning sections.

3:4

In this verse the author made a general statement that helps to explain what he said in 3:3. This statement in 3:4 is background information, so the RSV uses parentheses. Use a natural way in your language to indicate this background information.

3:4a

And every house is built by someone,

Obviously every house had someone to build it,
Everyone knows that a house cannot cause itself to exist; there must be a builder/person to build/make it,

And: The Greek word that the BSB translates as And is translated as “For” in many English versions. It introduces a statement that reminds readers of a fact that they already know. Other ways to indicate that the readers know this information are:

Of course (CEV)

We all know that…Tagbanwa back translation on TW.

every house is built by someone: The clause every house is built by someone is passive. It indicates that if a house exists, someone must have built it. This fact is a general principle that is true for any house. Some other ways to translate the clause are:

if there is a house, of course there is someone who built that house

Certainly every house that exists had someone to make/build it.

3:4b

but God is the builder of everything.

but God is that one who built everything.
and the builder/person who made all things is God.

but God is the builder of everything: This clause is a general principle that goes with the specific truth in 3:4a. Every house has a human builder (3:4a), but God is the actual builder who makes each building possible (3:4b). God is the one who caused everything to exist.

Translate this clause as a general truth, and connect it to 3:4a in a natural way in your language. Some other ways to translate it are:

and God is the one who has built all things (GNT)

but the one who built everything is God (NLT)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

πᾶς & οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινος

every & house ˓is_being˒_prepared by (Some words not found in SR-GNT: πᾶς Γάρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινός ὁ δέ παντᾶ κατασκευάσας Θεός)

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. The author uses the passive form here to focus on the house that is built rather than on the person doing the building. Alternate translation: [someone built every house]

πᾶς & οἶκος

every & house

Here, just as in [3:3](../03/03.md), the author uses the word house plainly to refer to a building or structure. He wants his readers to apply what is true about a house (the building) to the “house” (the people). If you used a different word for “house” in the previous verses, make sure that your readers know that here the author is drawing a comparison between people and houses. Alternate translation: [every structure]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ὁ & πάντα κατασκευάσας

the_‹one› & (Some words not found in SR-GNT: πᾶς Γάρ οἶκος κατασκευάζεται ὑπό τινός ὁ δέ παντᾶ κατασκευάσας Θεός)

The author is speaking as if everything that God created were a house that God had built. He speaks in this way to connect God’s act of creation with the “house” and “building” language. Use the same word or phrase here that you used for built earlier in the verse. If necessary, you could express the idea with an analogy. Alternate translation: [the one who was like a builder when he created all things]

Parallel HEB 3:4

Section 3:1–6: Jesus is greater than Moses

3:4

3:4a

3:4b