What Does Hebrews 10:10 Mean?
By this will we have been set apart through the offering of the body of Jesus, the Anointed One, once for all.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.THE KEY
Here, “sanctified” means set apart through an offering already made once for all, so your belonging is received as a present result rather than an unfinished task.
THE MEANING
The verse places you within its “we”: by the will named here, you are set apart through Jesus’ bodily offering, once for all. That single act has a present result: you belong among those set apart.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that your set-apartness must be completed by another offering is undone by “once for all.”
THE ROOT
ἡγιασμένοι
hēgiasmenoi
GROWS FROM
ἁγ-
hag-
Set apart; consecrated.
This is a perfect passive form: the setting apart has been done to “we,” and its result holds in the present. Its word family links the act of setting apart with the people and state described as set apart, so the verse presents this as received and ongoing.
ALSO GROWS
hágios: Set apart; sacred.
ἅγιος
The adjective names the set-apart quality carried by the same word family.
hagiázō: Set apart; consecrate.
ἁγιάζω
This verb names the act whose result appears in “sanctified.”
hagiasmós: Setting apart; consecration.
ἁγιασμός
This noun describes the state or process that the verse says reaches “we.”
προσφορᾶς
prosphoras
GROWS FROM
φερ-/φορ- (pher-/phor-)
Bring, carry, bear; the stem varies between φερ- and φορ-.
The noun προσφορά (prosphorá, offering) belongs to a family built around bringing and bearing; προσφέρω (prosphérō) means bring toward or offer. That motion sharpens the verse’s image: the body is brought as an offering once, and the set-apart state follows from that completed act.
ALSO GROWS
phérō: Bring; carry; bear.
φέρω
This base verb makes the physical sense of bringing audible within the word family of “offering.”
prosphérō: Bring toward; offer.
προσφέρω
The added προσ- (pros-, toward) gives the offering the sense of something brought toward.
anaphérō: Bring up; bear; offer up.
ἀναφέρω
This compound keeps the same bringing-and-bearing root, linking an offering with what is borne.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshua
GROWS FROM
יָשַׁע
yashaʿ
Deliver; bring out of constriction into spaciousness.
The name Jesus carries the nature of deliverance: Yeshua comes from yashaʿ, to deliver. The one whose body is offered bears a name that speaks of movement out of narrowness and toward spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
yashaʿ: Deliver; bring out.
יָשַׁע
This verb is the name’s root and names the deliverance carried in Jesus’ nature.
yeshuʿah: Deliverance; rescue.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun makes explicit the deliverance held in the name’s root.
THE PATTERN
Consecration begins in divine action and extends to others as a lasting state.
There I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tent shall be set apart by my weight.And for their sake I set myself apart, that they also might be set apart through the truth.For by one offering he has made complete without break those being set apart.THE THREAD
And for their sake I set myself apart, that they also might be set apart through the truth.The Greek verb translated “sanctify” belongs to the same ἁγ- (hag-) family as “sanctified” in Hebrews. John connects Jesus’ self-consecration with others being set apart, echoing Hebrews’ link between his bodily offering and the state shared by “we.”
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