1 Corinthians 15:55

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
1 Corinthians 15:55 · direct translation from the Greek

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Paul speaks of a mystery: we will be changed and death will be swallowed upThe Resurrection Paul exults: “Where, O death, is your victory?”Death and Eternal Life

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Where,ποῦO death,θάνατεisyourσουvictory?τὸ νῖκοςWhere,ποῦO death,θάνατεisyourσουsting?τὸ κέντρον

Quotation · Hosea 13:14

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Where the Hebrew says “Where are your plagues, O death? Where, O Sheol, is your destruction?”, Paul says “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

Formula: γεγραμμένος “written” (1 Corinthians 15:54)

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Greek of the New Testament: ποῦ σου θάνατε τὸ νῖκος ποῦ σου θάνατε τὸ κέντρον

Hebrew (Masoretic text): מִיַּד שְׁאוֹל אֶפְדֵּם מִמָּוֶת אֶגְאָלֵם אֱהִי דְבָרֶיךָ מָוֶת אֱהִי קָטָבְךָ שְׁאוֹל נֹחַם יִסָּתֵר מֵעֵינָי

Septuagint (Hosea 13:14 in the Septuagint numbering): ἐκ χειρὸς ᾅδου ῥύσομαι καὶ ἐκ θανάτου λυτρώσομαι αὐτούς· ποῦ ἡ δίκη σου, θάνατε; ποῦ τὸ κέντρον σου, ᾅδη παράκλησις κέκρυπται ἀπὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μοῦ,

In the Septuagint verse that most resembles it, at most 2 consecutive words match the Greek of the NT. The transcription has reading errors, so a match may not show.

Septuagint, Swete’s text, First1KGreek transcription (with reading errors), CC BY-SA 4.0

1 Corinthians 15:55, word by word

Whereποῦpou

where?

Where?

Where else “pou” appears

O deathθάνατεthanate

death

The end of the body's life.

Where else “thanate” appears

victoryνῖκοςnikos

victory

Victory.

Where else “nikos” appears

stingκέντρονkentron

sting

The poisoned point that pricks, like a scorpion's.

Where else “kentron” appears

Translation note· on the manuscripts

Hosea 13:14. Many manuscripts read “O Hades” the second time and reverse the order: “Where, O death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?”

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Quotation · Hosea 13:14

Where the Hebrew says “Where are your plagues, O death? Where, O Sheol, is your destruction?”, Paul says “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

See them side by side

1 Corinthians 15:55

⁵⁵Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?

Hosea 13:14

¹⁴From the hand of Sheol I will ransom them; from death I will redeem them. Where are your plagues, death? Where is your destruction, Sheol? Relenting will be hidden from my eyes.

The context

54And when this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the word that is written will come about: Death has been swallowed up in victory.

55 · This verse (above)

56Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

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