What Does Hebrews 10:18 Mean?
Now where there is release of these, there is no more offering for falling short.
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
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.THE KEY
Release is the point where the offering cycle ends: what is let go no longer has to be brought again.
THE MEANING
Where these missing things are released, there is no longer an offering needed for them. The verse places completed release beside the end of the action that addressed the missing. What has been let go does not need another offering to make the release complete.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a released failure still needs another offering before the release is real.
THE ROOT
ἄφεσις
aphesis
GROWS FROM
ἵημι (hiēmi) with ἀπό (apo)
Send or let go; with apo, send away.
Ἄφεσις (aphesis, release or remission) belongs to ἀφίημι (aphiēmi, release, leave, or forgive), formed from ἀπό (apo, away) and ἵημι (hiēmi, send or let go). The word carries the sense of letting go, so the verse describes a release that ends the need to bring another offering for what has been released.
ALSO GROWS
aphiēmi: Release, leave, forgive
ἀφίημι
This related verb shows that remission is an act of letting go, not merely a status attached to the missing.
aphesis: Release, remission
ἄφεσις
In Luke 4:18 this same word is rendered “deliverance” and “liberty,” joining release of the missing with release from captivity.
προσφορά
prosphora
GROWS FROM
φέρω (pherō) with πρός (pros)
Carry or bring toward; present.
Προσφορά (prosphora, offering) comes from προσφέρω (prospherō, bring toward or present). The Greek keeps the movement of bringing in view: where release is present, this bringing for the missing comes to an end.
ALSO GROWS
pherō: Carry, bring
φέρω
This underlying verb gives the offering its sense of something brought forward.
prospherō: Bring toward, present, offer
προσφέρω
The related verb makes clear that an offering is an act of presenting or bringing something.
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρταν-
hamartan-
Miss or fail to reach.
“offering for falling short” in this verse is hamartia. Ἁμαρτία (hamartia, missing) belongs to ἁμαρτάνω (hamartanō, miss or fail). The verse speaks of the missing as what is released; it need not remain a fixed identity the reader carries.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: Miss, fail
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb gives the noun its sense of missing rather than only a settled label.
hamartēma: A miss, error, or wrong
ἁμάρτημα
This related noun shows the same root describing a particular instance of missing.
THE PATTERN
When the missing is removed or dealt with decisively, the text describes a completed act rather than an endless return to it.
As far as the east is from the west, so far he puts our rebellions from us.For by one offering he has made complete without break those being set apart.For in his dying he died to falling short once; but in his living he lives to God.THE THREAD
The breath of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the emptied. He has sent me to heal the shattered in heart, to herald release to the captives, and the return of sight for the blind, to send the crushed away into release.The word rendered “deliverance” here is ἄφεσις (aphesis), the same Greek noun rendered “remission” in Hebrews 10:18. The shared word links release of the missing with release from captivity: in both, what held a person is let go.
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