What Does Hebrews 3:7 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Today turns hearing into a living threshold: the Set-Apart Breath speaks now, and the voice meets the reader in the present.
THE MEANING
The Set-Apart Breath speaks into this day, where the voice can be received. Hearing is more than sound reaching the ear; it opens toward response.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The idea that the divine voice belongs only to a past moment or a future season; this verse places its invitation in today.
THE ROOT
ἀκούσητε
akousēte from akoúō
GROWS FROM
ἀκου-
akou-
hear, listen
Hebrews uses the Greek word for hearing, but the quoted line comes from Psalm 95:7, where the Hebrew is תִּשְׁמְעוּ (tishme’u), from שָׁמַע (shama, hear and heed). That source-word brings response into the summons: hearing is a voice received, not sound merely passing by.
ALSO GROWS
akoē: hearing; report
ἀκοή
This related noun links hearing with what is received and carried as a message.
hypakoúō: listen to; obey
ὑπακούω
This compound keeps the same hearing stem and shows how listening can become a response.
πνεῦμα ἅγιον
pneuma hagion
GROWS FROM
πνευ-
pneu-
breath; moving air; to blow
“Holy Ghost” in this verse is pneuma hagion. Pneuma can name breath, moving air, and the living Spirit; these meanings belong to one word-family. The voice in this verse comes from the Set-Apart Breath and reaches the reader in the immediacy of today.
ALSO GROWS
pnéō: blow; breathe
πνέω
The verb keeps the root’s sense of breath in motion.
pnoē: breath; blast
πνοή
This related noun makes the breath in pneuma tangible as the air that moves.
THE PATTERN
The living voice arrives in the present, and hearing opens into response.
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.THE THREAD
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,Psalm 95:7 has תִּשְׁמְעוּ (tishme’u), from שָׁמַע (shama, hear and heed), beneath the Greek hearing-word in Hebrews. The shared summons carries hearing toward response, and both verses place it in today.
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