Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Profane (bebhlov). Trodden under foot, unhallowed (I Timothy 1:9).
For one mess of meat (anti brwsewv miav). Idea of exchange, "for one act of eating" (I Corinthians 8:4).
Sold (apedeto). Second aorist middle indicative from Genesis 25:31, Genesis 25:33, and with irregular form for apedoto (regular mi form).
His own birthright (ta prwtotokia eautou). From Genesis also and in Philo, only here in N.T. From prwtotokov (first born, Hebrews 1:6).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 12:16:
1 Timothy 1:9
Hebrews 12:2
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