Study it in the app“For indeed, though you ought to be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and you have become people needing milk, not solid food.”
Forγὰρindeed,καὶthough you oughtὀφείλοντεςto beεἶναιteachersδιδάσκαλοιbyδιὰthis time,τὸν χρόνονyou needχρείαν ἔχετεsomeoneτινὰto teachτοῦ διδάσκεινyouὑμᾶςagainπάλινthe first principlesτὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς ἀρχῆςof the oraclesτῶν λογίωνof God,τοῦ θεοῦandκαὶyou have becomeγεγόνατεpeopleneedingχρείαν ἔχοντεςmilk,γάλακτοςnotοὐsolidστερεᾶςfood.τροφῆς
ought
To be under obligation to do something.
Where else “opheilontes” appearsbe
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “einai” appearsteacher
Teacher, one who teaches.
Where else “didaskaloi” appearstime
Time; a span of time.
Where else “chronon” appearsneed
What is lacking, required.
Where else “chreian” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echete” appearsteach
Teach.
Where else “didaskein” appearsagain
Once more, repeating what came before.
Where else “palin” appearsbasic principles
The first basics of a teaching; the world's enslaving powers.
Where else “stoicheia” appearsbeginning
The point where something starts: its first moment.
Where else “archēs” appearsoracles
Oracles: words spoken by God.
Where else “logiōn” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theou” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, different from before.
Where else “gegonate” appearsmilk
Milk, the food of little children; also as an image of simple, first teaching.
Where else “galaktos” appearsfirm, solid
Firm, solid; steadfast.
Where else “stereas” appearsfood
Food, nourishment.
Where else “trophēs” appears11About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
12 · This verse (above)
13For everyone who feeds on milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a child.
