Matthew 10:30 KJV
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
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New International Version
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
New Living Translation
And the very hairs on your head are all numbered.
English Standard Version
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Berean Literal Bible
And even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
New King James Version
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
New American Standard Bible
But even the hairs of your head are all counted.
Amplified Bible
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered [for the Father is sovereign and has complete knowledge].
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But the very hairs of your head are all numbered
This is a proverbial expression,
▪︎ showing the perfect knowledge God,
▪︎ and the exquisite care he takes, in providence, of all his creatures.
Particularly men, and especially his dear children and faithful ministers; as not a sparrow, so not a single hair of a man’s head falls to the ground without the knowledge, and will of God: a way of speaking sometimes used to signify, that not the least hurt or damage should befall a person; (see 1 Samuel 14:45) and the phraseology of the text was in use, and very well known by the Jews; for so they represent God speaking; “do not I number all the hairs of every creature?”
As our Lord applies this particularly to his disciples, His sense is, that they had no reason to be afraid of men, or fear anything that should befall them, for their bearing a faithful testimony to him; for, their valuable lives were under the special and peculiar care of divine providence; not only the days, months, and years of their lives were with God, and put down in His book of purposes and decrees, which could neither be shortened nor lengthened; and not only the more principal, and even all the members of their bodies were written in his book of providence, and a singular care taken of them; but even their very excrescences, the more minute parts, and which were of no great account with them, the “hairs” of their head”, even “all” of them, were not only known, but numbered”, taken account of, the thing was done already, it was not to be done; a very strong way of setting forth the doctrine of divine providence: a doctrine which the Jews were not unacquainted with, who say; “that the events of man, and accidents which come upon him, , “are all by”, or “in the hands of God”; and that “nothing is by chance, but all things are “with design”;’ or, as they elsewhere say, “a man does not hurt his finger below, but they proclaim concerning it above;” that is, as the gloss explains it, , “it is decreed” concerning it: which comes very near to the phrase here used.
The very hairs of your head
The apparent hyperbole of the figure is but the natural expression of the thought that even the incidents of life that seem most trivial are in very deed working together for good to those that love God.
They are not at any moment of their lives to think, that they are uncared for by their Father.
Greek
And ☆ δὲ (de) ☆ Conjunction ☆ A primary particle; but, and, etc.
Even ☆ καὶ (kai) ☆ Conjunction ☆ And, even, also, namely.
The very ☆ αἱ (hai) ☆ Article – Nominative Feminine Plural ☆ The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
Hairs ☆ τρίχες (triches) ☆ Noun – Nominative Feminine Plural ☆ Hair (of the head or of animals). Genitive case trichos, etc. of uncertain derivation; hair.
Of ☆ τῆς (tēs) ☆ Article – Genitive Feminine Singular ☆ The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
Your ☆ ὑμῶν (hymōn) ☆ Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Genitive 2nd Person Plural ☆ You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.
Head ☆ κεφαλῆς (kephalēs) ☆ Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular ☆ From the primary kapto; the head, literally or figuratively.
Are ☆ εἰσίν (eisin) ☆ Verb – Present Indicative Active – 3rd Person Plural ☆ I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.
All ☆ πᾶσαι (pasai) ☆ Adjective – Nominative Feminine Plural ☆ All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.
Numbered ☆ ἠριθμημέναι (ērithmēmenai) ☆ Verb – Perfect Participle Middle or Passive – Nominative Feminine Plural ☆ To number, count. From arithmos; to enumerate or count
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