Hebrews 11:13

Yet all of these became niftarim (deceased) in Emunah, not having received the havtachot (promises), but having seen them and, as it were, they gave the havtachot a “Baruch Habah!” welcome from a distance, and they made the Ani Ma'amin hoda'ah (confession) that they were GERIM (strangers) and TOSHAVIM + 11:13 Gerim…Toshavim see Ps 39:12 [13] (sojourners) in the Golus of the Olam Hazeh.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

In Context

12therefore, also, from one man were born + 11:12 Dt 26:5 and indeed this man was kimat (practically, as good as) dead many, as numerous as HAKOKHAVIM in HASHOMAYIM and as innumerable as the sand ASHER AL SEFAT (“that is on the seashore”). + 11:12 Gn 15:5; 22:17

14For those saying such things make it clear that they are searching for an Eretz Moshav.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4I am a ger and a sojourner with you: give me an achuzzah (possession) of a kever with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 27:2And he said, Hinei now, I am old, I know not my yom mot:

Genesis 48:21And Yisroel said unto Yosef, Hinei I die; but Elohim shall be with you, and bring you back unto the Eretz Avoteichem.

Genesis 49:18I have waited for Thy Yeshu'ah (Salvation), Hashem. 1

Genesis 49:33And when Ya'akov had made an end of commanding his banim, he gathered up his raglayim into the mittah, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.

Numbers 10:30And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my moledet.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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