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There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. <a href="/nlt/hebrews/11.htm">New Living Translation</a> Women received their loved ones back again from death. But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection. <a href="/esv/hebrews/11.htm">English Standard Version</a> Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. <a href="/bsb/hebrews/11.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection. <a href="/blb/hebrews/11.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/kjv/hebrews/11.htm">King James Bible</a> Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: <a href="/nkjv/hebrews/11.htm">New King James Version</a> Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/nasb_/hebrews/11.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; <a href="/nasb/hebrews/11.htm">NASB 1995</a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; <a href="/nasb77/hebrews/11.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection; <a href="/lsb/hebrews/11.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection; <a href="/amp/hebrews/11.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured [to death], refusing to accept release [offered on the condition of denying their faith], so that they would be resurrected to a better life; <a href="/csb/hebrews/11.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Women received their dead, raised to life again. Other people were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection. <a href="/hcsb/hebrews/11.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection, <a href="/asv/hebrews/11.htm">American Standard Version</a> Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: <a href="/cev/hebrews/11.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Some women received their loved ones back from death. Many of these people were tortured, but they refused to be released. They were sure they would get a better reward when the dead are raised to life. <a href="/erv/hebrews/11.htm">English Revised Version</a> Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: <a href="/gwt/hebrews/11.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Women received their loved ones back from the dead. Other believers were brutally tortured but refused to be released so that they might gain eternal life. <a href="/gnt/hebrews/11.htm">Good News Translation</a> Through faith women received their dead relatives raised back to life. Others, refusing to accept freedom, died under torture in order to be raised to a better life. <a href="/isv/hebrews/11.htm">International Standard Version</a> Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection. <a href="/msb/hebrews/11.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection. <a href="/net/hebrews/11.htm">NET Bible</a> and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life. <a href="/nheb/hebrews/11.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Women received their dead by resurrection. And others were tortured, not accepting the payment for release, that they might obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/wbt/hebrews/11.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: <a href="/wey/hebrews/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection. <a href="/web/hebrews/11.htm">World English Bible</a> Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hebrews/11.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> women received their dead by a resurrection, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might receive a better resurrection, <a href="/blb/hebrews/11.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/ylt/hebrews/11.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, <a href="/slt/hebrews/11.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hebrews/11.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. <a href="/cpdv/hebrews/11.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Women received their dead by means of resurrection. But others suffered severe punishment, not yet receiving redemption, so that they would find a better resurrection. <a href="/nabre/hebrews/11.htm">New American Bible</a> Women received back their dead through resurrection. Some were tortured and would not accept deliverance, in order to obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/nrsvce/hebrews/11.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hebrews/11.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Restored to women their sons, raised from the dead: while others died through tortures, not hoping for deliverance; that they might have a better resurrection: <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/hebrews/11.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And they gave women their children by resurrection of the dead, and others died by torture and did not expect to be delivered, that they would have a better resurrection;<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/hebrews/11.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection; <a href="/godbey/hebrews/11.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> women receive their dead from a resurrection: some were tortured, not accepting deliverance; in order that they might receive a better resurrection: <a href="/haweis/hebrews/11.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> Women received by a resurrection their dead: but others were tortured, not accepting a release; that they might obtain a better resurrection: <a href="/mace/hebrews/11.htm">Mace New Testament</a> women recovered their children, tho' dead, by their being raised to life again: some expired under torments, refusing to be delivered; that they might obtain a better deliverance at the resurrection. <a href="/wey/hebrews/11.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection. <a href="/worrell/hebrews/11.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> Women received their dead by a resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/worsley/hebrews/11.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. <a href="/parallel/hebrews/11-35.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-IAXXp5zcA?start=2417" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hebrews/11.htm">The Faith of Many</a> …34quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight. 35<a href="/greek/1135.htm" title="1135: gynaikes (N-NFP) -- A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.">Women</a> <a href="/greek/2983.htm" title="2983: Elabon (V-AIA-3P) -- (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. ">received back</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autōn (PPro-GF3P) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">their</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tous (Art-AMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3498.htm" title="3498: nekrous (Adj-AMP) -- (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.">dead,</a> <a href="/greek/1537.htm" title="1537: ex (Prep) -- From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out."></a> <a href="/greek/386.htm" title="386: anastaseōs (N-GFS) -- A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery.">raised to life again.</a> <a href="/greek/1161.htm" title="1161: de (Conj) -- A primary particle; but, and, etc."></a> <a href="/greek/243.htm" title="243: alloi (Adj-NMP) -- Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; else, i.e. Different.">Others</a> <a href="/greek/5178.htm" title="5178: etympanisthēsan (V-AIP-3P) -- From a derivative of tupto; to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death.">were tortured</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ou (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not."></a> <a href="/greek/4327.htm" title="4327: prosdexamenoi (V-APM-NMP) -- From pros and dechomai; to admit (figuratively) endurance); by implication, to await.">and refused</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">their</a> <a href="/greek/629.htm" title="629: apolytrōsin (N-AFS) -- From a compound of apo and lutron; ransom in full, i.e. riddance, or Christian salvation.">release,</a> <a href="/greek/2443.htm" title="2443: hina (Conj) -- In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.">so that</a> <a href="/greek/5177.htm" title="5177: tychōsin (V-ASA-3P) -- (a) gen: I obtain, (b) absol: I chance, happen; ordinary, everyday, it may chance, perhaps. ">they might gain</a> <a href="/greek/2909.htm" title="2909: kreittonos (Adj-GFS-C) -- Stronger, more excellent. Comparative of a derivative of kratos; stronger, i.e. better, i.e. Nobler.">a better</a> <a href="/greek/386.htm" title="386: anastaseōs (N-GFS) -- A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery.">resurrection.</a> 36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_kings/17-22.htm">1 Kings 17:22-24</a> And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived. / Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared. / Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.” <a href="/2_kings/4-32.htm">2 Kings 4:32-37</a> When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed. / So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD. / Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm. ... <a href="/matthew/22-31.htm">Matthew 22:31-32</a> But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: / ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” <a href="/john/11-23.htm">John 11:23-25</a> “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her. / Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” / Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. <a href="/john/5-28.htm">John 5:28-29</a> Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice / and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. <a href="/acts/24-15.htm">Acts 24:15</a> and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. <a href="/romans/8-11.htm">Romans 8:11</a> And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. <a href="/1_corinthians/15-20.htm">1 Corinthians 15:20-22</a> But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. / For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. / For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. <a href="/1_corinthians/15-42.htm">1 Corinthians 15:42-44</a> So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. / It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. / It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. <a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">1 Corinthians 15:52-54</a> in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. / For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. / When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” <a href="/2_corinthians/4-14.htm">2 Corinthians 4:14</a> knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence. <a href="/philippians/3-10.htm">Philippians 3:10-11</a> I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, / and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. <a href="/philippians/3-20.htm">Philippians 3:20-21</a> But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, / who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:Women.<a href="/1_kings/17-22.htm">1 Kings 17:22-24</a> And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived… <a href="/2_kings/4-27.htm">2 Kings 4:27-37</a> And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me… <a href="/luke/7-12.htm">Luke 7:12-16</a> Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her… tortured.<a href="/acts/22-24.htm">Acts 22:24,25,29</a> The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him… not accepting.<a href="/acts/4-19.htm">Acts 4:19</a> But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.that they.<a href="/matthew/22-30.htm">Matthew 22:30</a> For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.<a href="/mark/12-25.htm">Mark 12:25</a> For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.<a href="/luke/14-14.htm">Luke 14:14</a> And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/philemon/1-17.htm">Accept</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-34.htm">Accepted</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-8.htm">Accepting</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-17.htm">Alive</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-33.htm">Attacked</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-25.htm">Better</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-12.htm">Cruelly</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-19.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-9.htm">Dear</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-31.htm">Death</a> <a href="/philippians/1-19.htm">Deliverance</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-24.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-29.htm">Free</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-22.htm">Life</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-15.htm">Obtain</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-17.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-5.htm">Ones</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-25.htm">Others</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-11.htm">Raised</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-33.htm">Received</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-24.htm">Refused</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-11.htm">Refusing</a> <a href="/2_timothy/4-6.htm">Release</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-27.htm">Released</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-2.htm">Resurrection</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-11.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-19.htm">Secure</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-14.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/luke/8-28.htm">Torture</a> <a href="/titus/2-4.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/james/1-21.htm">Accept</a> <a href="/3_john/1-7.htm">Accepted</a> <a href="/3_john/1-7.htm">Accepting</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm">Alive</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-37.htm">Attacked</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-40.htm">Better</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-37.htm">Cruelly</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-20.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/james/1-16.htm">Dear</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-37.htm">Death</a> <a href="/genesis/45-7.htm">Deliverance</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-14.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm">Free</a> <a href="/james/1-12.htm">Life</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-15.htm">Obtain</a> <a href="/james/2-21.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-6.htm">Ones</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-36.htm">Others</a> <a href="/james/1-9.htm">Raised</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-39.htm">Received</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm">Refused</a> <a href="/exodus/8-2.htm">Refusing</a> <a href="/revelation/9-14.htm">Release</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-23.htm">Released</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-3.htm">Resurrection</a> <a href="/revelation/11-1.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm">Secure</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-38.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/revelation/9-5.htm">Torture</a> <a href="/james/1-27.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Hebrews 11</div>1. <a href="/hebrews/11-1.htm">What faith is.</a> 6. <a href="/hebrews/11-6.htm">Without faith we cannot please God.</a> 7. <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">The examples of faithfulness in the fathers of old time.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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<a href="/2_kings/4-18.htm">2 Kings 4:18-37</a>). The Greek word for "received" (λαμβάνω, lambanō) implies an active acceptance, suggesting that these women, through faith, actively embraced the miracle God provided. The phrase "raised to life again" underscores the divine intervention that transcends natural laws, pointing to the hope of resurrection and eternal life promised in Christ.Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection The word "tortured" (τυμπανίζω, tympanizō) refers to severe physical suffering, often involving a drum-like instrument used for punishment. This indicates the extreme trials faced by the faithful, who endured such suffering for the sake of their faith. The phrase "refused their release" suggests a conscious decision to endure suffering rather than compromise their beliefs. The "better resurrection" they sought is a reference to the eternal life promised to those who remain steadfast in their faith, a resurrection that is superior to any temporary relief or earthly resurrection.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/w/women_receiving_back_their_dead.htm">Women Receiving Back Their Dead</a> This refers to Old Testament accounts such as the widow of Zarephath and the Shunammite woman, whose sons were raised from the dead by Elijah and Elisha, respectively (<a href="/1_kings/17-17.htm">1 Kings 17:17-24</a>; <a href="/2_kings/4-18.htm">2 Kings 4:18-37</a>). 2. <a href="/topical/o/others_tortured.htm">Others Tortured</a> This likely alludes to the Maccabean martyrs, who suffered and died for their faith, as recorded in the intertestamental literature (2 Maccabees 6-7). 3. <a href="/topical/b/better_resurrection.htm">Better Resurrection</a> This concept points to the hope of eternal life and the resurrection of the righteous, a theme prevalent in both Old and New Testament teachings.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_god's_power_over_death.htm">Faith in God's Power Over Death</a> The accounts of women receiving their dead back to life demonstrate God's sovereignty and power over life and death. Believers can trust in God's ability to intervene miraculously in their lives. <a href="/topical/e/endurance_through_suffering.htm">Endurance Through Suffering</a> The example of those who were tortured and refused release highlights the importance of enduring suffering for the sake of a greater reward. Christians are called to remain steadfast in their faith, even in the face of persecution. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_the_resurrection.htm">Hope in the Resurrection</a> The "better resurrection" signifies the ultimate hope of eternal life with God. This hope should motivate believers to live faithfully, knowing that their present sufferings are not in vain. <a href="/topical/t/the_cost_of_discipleship.htm">The Cost of Discipleship</a> Following Christ may involve sacrifice and suffering. Believers are encouraged to count the cost and remain committed to their faith, trusting in God's promises.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hebrews/11.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(35) Raised to life again.--Literally, by a resurrection. (See <a href="/context/1_kings/17-22.htm" title="And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.">1Kings 17:22-23</a>; <a href="/context/2_kings/4-35.htm" title="Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.">2Kings 4:35-37</a>.) At this point the character of the record is changed; hitherto we have heard of the victories of faith in action, now it is of the triumph of faith over suffering that the writer speaks. Those who "escaped the edge of the sword" (<a href="/hebrews/11-34.htm" title="Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.">Hebrews 11:34</a>) and those who "were slain with the sword" alike exemplified the power of faith.Others were tortured.--See the account of the aged Eleazar (<a href="//apocrypha.org/2_maccabees/6-30.htm" title="But when he was ready to die with stripes, he groaned, and said, It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, that whereas I might have been delivered from death, I now endure sore pains in body by being beaten: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear him.">2 Maccabees 6:30</a>), martyred because he would not pollute himself with swine's flesh and the "flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king." The following chapter records the martyrdom of seven brethren, who for their adherence to their law were put to death with cruel tortures. (See especially <a href="/hebrews/11-9.htm" title="By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:">Hebrews 11:9</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-14.htm" title="For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.">Hebrews 11:14</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-23.htm" title="By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.">Hebrews 11:23</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-29.htm" title="By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.">Hebrews 11:29</a>; <a href="/hebrews/11-36.htm" title="And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:">Hebrews 11:36</a>.) . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hebrews/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 35. - Women received their dead raised to life again (literally, from, or, out of resurrection. The A.V. gives the sense in good English; only the force of the repetition of the word "resurrection" at the end of the verse is lost); and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. The first part of this verse evidently refers to <a href="/1_kings/17-22.htm">1 Kings 17:22</a> and <a href="/2_kings/4-36.htm">2 Kings 4:36</a> - the memorable instances in the Old Testament of mothers having had their sons restored to them from death. The latter part is as evidently suggested at least by the narrative of 2 Macc. 7; where it is recorded how, under the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes, seven sons of one mother were tortured and put to death; how one of them, in the midst of his tortures, having deliverance and advancement offered him if he would forsake the Law of his fathers, courageously refused the offer; and how both they and their mother, who encouraged them to persevere, reiterated their hope of a resurrection from the dead. The "better resurrection" means the resurrection to eternal life by them looked for, which was "better" than the temporary restoration to life in this world granted to the sons of the widow of Zarephath and the Shunammite; while the article in the Greek before "deliverance" (τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν) may be due to the thought of that which is recorded to have been offered to those in the writer's immediate view. There is some doubt as to the exact import of the word ἐτυμπανίσθησαν (translated "tortured"). The usual meaning of the Greek word is" to beat," as a drum is beaten, from τύμπανον, a drum or drumstick: and ἀποτυμπανίζειν means "to beat to death." But, inasmuch as the instrument of torture to which Eleazar (whose martyrdom is related in the preceding chapter of 2 Maccabees) was brought is called τὸ τύμπανον (6:19, 28), it has been supposed that the punishment referred to was the stretching of the victims, in the way of a rack, on a sort of wheel called a tympanum, on which they were then beaten to death, as Eleazar was. So Vulgate, distenti sunt. The fact that the seven of 2 Macc. 7. were not so martyred, but by fire and other tortures, is not inconsistent with this view; for our author need not be supposed to confine his view to them, but uses the word suggested by Eleazar's case. Whatever be the exact import of the word, the A.V. ("were tortured") sufficiently gives the generally intended meaning. <a href="/commentaries/hebrews/11-35.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>Women γυναῖκες (gynaikes) Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1135.htm">Strong's 1135: </a> A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife. received back Ἔλαβον (Elabon) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2983.htm">Strong's 2983: </a> (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. their αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. dead, νεκροὺς (nekrous) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3498.htm">Strong's 3498: </a> (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead. raised to life again. ἀναστάσεως (anastaseōs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_386.htm">Strong's 386: </a> A rising again, resurrection. From anistemi; a standing up again, i.e. a resurrection from death (its author), or a recovery. Others ἄλλοι (alloi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_243.htm">Strong's 243: </a> Other, another (of more than two), different. A primary word; 'else, ' i.e. Different. were tortured ἐτυμπανίσθησαν (etympanisthēsan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5178.htm">Strong's 5178: </a> From a derivative of tupto; to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum, and thus beat to death. [and] refused προσδεξάμενοι (prosdexamenoi) Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4327.htm">Strong's 4327: </a> From pros and dechomai; to admit (figuratively) endurance); by implication, to await. [their] τὴν (tēn) Article - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. release, ἀπολύτρωσιν (apolytrōsin) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_629.htm">Strong's 629: </a> From a compound of apo and lutron; ransom in full, i.e. riddance, or Christian salvation. so that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2443.htm">Strong's 2443: </a> In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. they might gain τύχωσιν (tychōsin) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5177.htm">Strong's 5177: </a> (a) gen: I obtain, (b) absol: I chance, happen; ordinary, everyday, it may chance, perhaps. a better κρείττονος (kreittonos) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular - Comparative <a href="/greek/strongs_2909.htm">Strong's 2909: </a> Stronger, more excellent. Comparative of a derivative of kratos; stronger, i.e. better, i.e. Nobler. resurrection. ἀναστάσεως (anastaseōs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_386.htm">Strong's 386: </a> A rising again, resurrection. 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