Hebrews 11:8 — compare English translations
Compare translationsHebrews 11:8 in 3 English versions, beneath the original-language interlinear. Each original word links to its lexicon entry, so you can weigh the renderings against the morphology yourself. Full word study →
Πίστει
pístis
G4102
faith
καλούμενος
kaléō
G2564
to call
Ἀβραὰμ
Abraám
G11
Abraham
ὑπήκουσεν
hypakoúō
G5219
to listen
ἐξελθεῖν
exérchomai
G1831
to come forth
εἰς
eis
G1519
into
τόπον
tópos
G5117
place
ὃν
hós
G3739
who
ἤμελλεν
méllō
G3195
to be about
λαμβάνειν
lambánō
G2983
to take
εἰς
eis
G1519
into
κληρονομίαν
klēronomía
G2817
inheritance
καὶ
kaí
G2532
and
ἐξῆλθεν
exérchomai
G1831
to come forth
μὴ
mḗ
G3361
not
ἐπιστάμενος
epístamai
G1987
to attend to
ποῦ
poû
G4226
somewhere
ἔρχεται
érchomai
G2064
to come
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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World English Bible Public Domain
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
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King James Version Public Domain
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
By faith, Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance and went out, not fully knowing where he is going.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).