Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
By a resurrection (ec anastasewv). Cf. I Kings 17:17 ff.; 2Ki. 4:8-37.
Were tortured (etumpanisqhsan). First aorist passive indicative of tumpanizw, late verb from tumpanon (kettledrum, drumstick), to beat the drum, to beat to death (cf. II Macc. 7 about Eleazar and the Mother and the seven sons), once in LXX (I Samuel 21:13).
Not accepting their deliverance (ou prosdecamenoi thn apolutrwsin). Offered at the price of disloyalty as in II Macc. 6:21-27.
That they might obtain a better resurrection (ina kreittonov anastasewv tuxwsin). Purpose clause with ina and the second aorist active subjunctive of tugxanw to obtain with the genitive case. A "better resurrection" than the temporary ones alluded to in this verse by the women.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 11:35:
1 Corinthians 4:9
Hebrews 9:12
1 Peter 3:5
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