Romans 11:17

But if some of the ana'fim have been broken off, and you, a wild olive, have been grafted among them and have become sharer in the richness of the olive treeʼs root,

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

In Context

16If the terumah haissa (portion, offering of the dough) that is reshit (first) is kodesh (holy), so is the whole; and if the shoresh (root) is kodesh (holy), so also are the ana'fim (the branches).

18Do not boast + 11:18 Ro 4:2 over the ana'fim. If you do boast, it is not the case that you sustain the shoresh, but the shoresh sustains you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:8An eretz chittah, and se'orah (barley), and gefen, and te'enah, and pomegranates; an eretz zayit shemen, and devash;

Psalms 52:8The tzaddikim also shall see, and fear, 1 and shall laugh at him: 1

Isaiah 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, 1 and it shall be given up to destruction, 1 like the terebinth and like the oak, 1 when they are felled, leave + 6:13 as a remnant a root-stump: 1 so the root-stump shall be the zera kodesh. + 6:13 T.N. This next chapter is possibly the most important in the Bible and is dealt with in The Translator to the Reader.

Jeremiah 11:16Hashem called thy shem, A green zayit (olive tree), yafeh, and of goodly pri (fruit); with the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled eish upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Jonah 1:16Then the men feared Hashem with a yirah gedolah, and offered a sacrifice unto Hashem, and vowed nedarim.

Matthew 8:11And I say to you, that many from the mizrach (east) and the maarav (west) will come and will sit bimesibba (reclining at tish) with Avraham and Yitzchak and Ya'akov in the Malchut HaShomayim.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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