The Meaning of Hebrews 4:10 Explained

Hebrews 4:10

KJV: For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

YLT: for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

Darby: For he that has entered into his rest, he also has rested from his works, as God did from his own.

ASV: For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Hebrews 4:10?

MEANING: What does Hebrews 4:10 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Hebrews 4:10 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Hebrews 4:10?

What is the context of Hebrews 4:10?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his.

What does Hebrews 4:10 Mean?

Verse Meaning

When we enter that rest we can cease walking by faith because then we will experience what we now only hope for ( Hebrews 11:1; cf. 1 Corinthians 13:12). We will cease from our work as God did from His. The Hebrew word translated "rested" in Genesis 2:2 literally means "ceased." His work of creating did not exhaust God. He simply stopped creating on the seventh day.

Context Summary

Hebrews 4:1-10 - The Rest That Joshua Could Not Give

The good news of Canaan's rest was preached to Israel but availed nothing, because the hearers were destitute of faith. They said, Can God? instead of, God can! They thought of their enemies as giants and themselves as grasshoppers, because they left God out of account. Take God into account -and we are giants and our enemies grasshoppers.

To all of us Christ offers rest, not in the other life only, but in this. See Hebrews 4:3; Hebrews 4:11. Rest from the weight of sin, from care and worry, from the load of daily anxiety and foreboding. The rest that arrives from handing all worries over to Christ, and receiving from Christ all we need. Have we entered into that experience? In Hebrews 4:6; Hebrews 4:11, where a.v. reads, "unbelief," r.v., reads, "disobedience." If we disobey, we cannot believe; but when we believe we are sure to obey. In Hebrews 4:10 we are directed to our risen Lord, who has finished the work of Redemption and rests, as God did when He pronounced Creation to be "very good." When we understand what He meant by "It is finished," we, too, shall rest. [source]

Chapter Summary: Hebrews 4

¹ The Sabbath-Rest for Christians is attained by faith
¹² The power of God's word
¹⁴ By our high priest Jesus, the Son of God,
¹⁶ we may and must go boldly to the throne of grace

Greek Commentary for Hebrews 4:10

As God did from his [ωσπερ απο των ιδιων ο τεος]
It is not cessation of work, but rather of the weariness and pain in toil. The writer pictures salvation as God‘s rest which man is to share and God will have perfect satisfaction when man is in harmony with him (Dods). [source]

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d Only in such a Sabbath-rest is found the counterpart of God's rest on the seventh day. [source]

For he that is entered into his rest [ὁ γὰρ εἰσελθὼν εἱς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ]
Whoever has once entered. His, God's. The aorist marks the completeness of the appropriation - once and for all. [source]

He also hath ceased from his own works [καὶ αὐτος κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ]
Omit own. The statement is a general proposition: any one who has entered into God's rest has ceased from his works. [source]

As God did from his [ὤσπερ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ὁ θεός]
Rend. as God (did ) from his own. Ἰδίων ownsignifies more than mere possession. Rather, works peculiarly his own, thus hinting at the perfect nature of the original works of creation as corresponding with God's nature and bearing his impress. The blessing of the Sabbath-rest is thus put as a cessation from labors. The basis of the conception is Jewish, the rest of the Sabbath being conceived as mere abstinence from labor, and not according to Christ's conception of the Sabbath, as a season of refreshment and beneficent activity, Mark 2:27; John 5:17. Our writer's conception is not the rabbinical conception of cessation of work, but rather of the cessation of the weariness and pain which accompany human labor. Comp. Revelation 14:13; Revelation 21:4; Luke 11:7; Luke 18:5; Galatians 6:17. [source]

What do the individual words in Hebrews 4:10 mean?

The [one] for having entered into the rest of Him also he rested from the works as own - God [did]

ὁ γὰρ εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ αὐτὸς κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων ὥσπερ ἰδίων ὁ Θεός

ὁ	The [one]
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc.
εἰσελθὼν	having entered
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: εἰσέρχομαι Sense: to go out or come in: to enter.
εἰς	into
Parse: Preposition Root: εἰς Sense: into, unto, to, towards, for, among.
κατάπαυσιν	rest
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: κατάπαυσις Sense: a putting to rest.
αὐτοῦ	of Him
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Root: αὐτός Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself.
καὶ	also
Parse: Conjunction Root: καί Sense: and, also, even, indeed, but.
κατέπαυσεν	rested
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular Root: καταπαύω Sense: to make quiet, to cause to be at rest, to grant rest.
ἔργων	works
Parse: Noun, Genitive Neuter Plural Root: ἔργον Sense: business, employment, that which any one is occupied.
ἰδίων	own
Parse: Adjective, Genitive Neuter Plural Root: ἴδιος Sense: pertaining to one’s self, one’s own, belonging to one’s self.
ὁ	-
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc.
Θεός	God [did]
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: θεός Sense: a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities.

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