For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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δέ (δ᾽)
Vocabulary form:
δέ
Definition:
and; but
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
2,792
GK:
1254
Mnemonic Singing:
Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
hat saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see.
Notes:
dev is a postpositive. This means that it cannot be the first word in a sentence or clause, even though in your translation it is the first word. It usually is the second word and sometimes the third, e.g., oJ de; ei\pon ....
Biblical Concordance
| Titus 3:14 | And (de | δέ | conj) let our people learn to be devoted to good deeds, specifically the urgent needs, lest they be fruitless. |
| Philemon 1:9 | yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you — I, Paul, an old man and (de | δέ | conj) even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus — |
| Philemon 1:11 | Formerly he was of no use to you, but (de | δέ | conj) now he has become useful both to you and to me. |
| Philemon 1:14 | but (de | δέ | conj) I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your helpfulness might not be by compulsion but by your own free will. |
| Philemon 1:16 | no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, but (de | δέ | conj) how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. |
| Philemon 1:18 | If he has wronged you or owes you anything, charge that to my account — |
| Philemon 1:22 | At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you. |
| Hebrews 1:6 | And (de | δέ | conj) again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.” |
| Hebrews 1:8 | But (de | δέ | conj) regarding the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of absolute justice is the scepter of your kingdom. |
| Hebrews 1:11 | They will perish; but (de | δέ | conj) you continue. And all of them like a garment will wear out, |
| Hebrews 1:12 | like a robe you will fold them up, like a garment they will also be changed. But (de | δέ | conj) you are the same, and your years will never end.” |
| Hebrews 1:13 | And (de | δέ | conj) to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? |
| Hebrews 2:6 | But (de | δέ | conj) someone has testified somewhere, “What is man that you take thought for him, or the son of man, that you care for him? |
| Hebrews 2:8 | You put everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. But (de | δέ | conj) in fact we do not yet see everything under his control. |
| Hebrews 2:9 | But (de | δέ | conj) we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor. |
| Hebrews 3:4 | For every house is built by someone, but (de | δέ | conj) the one who built everything is God. |
| Hebrews 3:6 | but (de | δέ | conj) Christ is faithful as the Son, presiding over God’s household, and we are his household if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. |
| Hebrews 3:10 | for forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation and said, ‘They are always going astray in their hearts, and (de | δέ | conj) they have not known my ways.’ |
| Hebrews 3:17 | And (de | δέ | conj) with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? |
| Hebrews 3:18 | And (de | δέ | conj) to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, except those who had refused to obey? |
| Hebrews 4:13 | And nothing in creation is hidden from God’s sight, but (de | δέ | conj) everything is uncovered and exposed to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account. |
| Hebrews 4:15 | For we do not have a high priest who is unable to feel our weaknesses, but (de | δέ | conj) one who has been tempted in every way just as we are — yet without sin. |
| Hebrews 5:14 | But (de | δέ | conj) solid food is for the mature, for those who by virtue of their maturity have senses that are trained to distinguish good from evil. |
| Hebrews 6:8 | But (de | δέ | conj) if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned. |
| Hebrews 6:9 | But (de | δέ | conj) we are convinced of better things in your case, beloved — things that accompany salvation — even though we speak as we do. |
| Hebrews 6:11 | But (de | δέ | conj) we want each one of you to demonstrate the same earnestness to the very end for the fulfillment of your hope, |
| Hebrews 6:12 | so that you will not be lazy, but (de | δέ | conj) imitators of those who by faith and perseverance inherit the promises. |
| Hebrews 7:2 | and to him Abraham alloted a tenth part of everything. Translated, his name means first, “king of righteousness,” then it also means, “king of Salem,” that is, “king of peace.” |
| Hebrews 7:3 | He is without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life; but (de | δέ | conj) like the Son of God he continues a priest for all time. |
| Hebrews 7:4 | But (de | δέ | conj) see how great this man was to whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tithe of the finest plunder. |
| Hebrews 7:6 | But (de | δέ | conj) this man who does not trace his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises. |
| Hebrews 7:7 | It is beyond dispute that the person of lesser status is blessed by the one of greater status. |
| Hebrews 7:8 | In the one case, mortal men receive tithes, but (de | δέ | conj) in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives. |
| Hebrews 7:19 | (for the law made nothing perfect); but (de | δέ | conj) the introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God. |
| Hebrews 7:21 | but (de | δέ | conj) he became a priest with an oath by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’”), |
| Hebrews 7:24 | but (de | δέ | conj) on the other hand, Jesus, because he remains forever, has a priesthood that is permanent. |
| Hebrews 7:28 | For the law appoints men as high priests who have weaknesses, but (de | δέ | conj) the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints the Son who has been made perfect forever. |
| Hebrews 8:1 | Now (de | δέ | conj) the crowning affirmation to what we are saying is this: we do have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, |
| Hebrews 8:6 | But (de | δέ | conj) as it is, he has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant of which he is mediator is better, since it has been enacted on the basis of better promises. |
| Hebrews 8:13 | In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And (de | δέ | conj) what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear. |
| Hebrews 9:3 | Behind the curtain was a second room, a shrine called “the Most Holy Place.” |
| Hebrews 9:5 | Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. |
| Hebrews 9:6 | When these things had been prepared in this way, the priests used to enter regularly into the outer room to perform their ritual services; |
| Hebrews 9:7 | however (de | δέ | conj) into the second room only the high priest entered, and that only once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people. |
| Hebrews 9:11 | But (de | δέ | conj) when Christ appeared as high priest of the good things that have now come, passing through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), |
| Hebrews 9:12 | he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but (de | δέ | conj) by means of his own blood, thus obtaining an eternal redemption. |
| Hebrews 9:21 | And (de | δέ | conj) in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. |
| Hebrews 9:23 | Thus it was necessary that earthly copies of the heavenly realities be purified by these rites, but (de | δέ | conj) the heavenly realities themselves with better sacrifices than these. |
| Hebrews 9:26 | for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But (de | δέ | conj) as it is, he has appeared once for all at the climax of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice. |
| Hebrews 9:27 | And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and (de | δέ | conj) after that to experience judgment, |