^a Gk. ὑπόστασις, substance, i.e., core; substructure; underpinning; what is at bottom; the thing upon which something rests.

^b The English word "hope" has an implied subjunctive mood to it. The Greek word is a more certain "expectation".

^c Gk. ἔλεγχος, conviction (after having been convinced of something). See BDAG s.v. ἔλεγχος 1.: ἔ. πραγμάτων οὐ βλεπομένων faith is a proving (or conviction about) unseen things=faith means to be sure about things unseen (in contrast to confidence in the temporal).

^a Gk. νοέω, lit. to use the νους (the logical mind).

^b (The) utterance of a god, or an utterance of (the) God.

^c Gk. μὴ ἐκ φαινομένων ψεγονέναι, lit. to have not become from (just) appearing.

^a Gn. 4:3-8: 4:3 At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord. 4:4 But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock – even the fattest of them. And the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering, 4:5 but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased.... 4:8 Cain said to his brother Abel, Let’s go out to the field. While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him (NET).

^b Gn. 4:4b LXX: καὶ ἐπεῖδεν ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ Αβελ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς δώροις αὐτοῦ, and God looked upon Abel and upon his gifts [And the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering (NET)].

^c Gn. 4:10-11: And the Lord said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. 11 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand (ESV). See also Heb. 12:24. (Is the more excellent sacrifice himself, being murdered? )

^a Gn. 5:22-24: 5:22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 5:23 The entire lifetime of Enoch was 365 years. 5:24 Enoch walked with God [LXX: εὐηρέστησεν Ενωχ τῷ θεῷ, Enoch was very pleasing to God], and then he disappeared [LXX: οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο, he was not found] because God took him away [LXX: μετέθηκεν αὐτὸν ὁ θεός] (NET).

^a Gn. 5:22-24 does not mention Enoch's faith, only that he walked with God and was taken away. Heb. 11:6 is saying that Enoch's being taken away is testimony that he was very pleasing to God, and that only by faith could he have been very pleasing to God.

^a Gn. 6:9-14: 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God. 6:10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 6:11 The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence. 6:12 God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful. 6:13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth. 6:14 Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out (NET).

^a Gn. 12:1-4: 12:1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household / to the land that I will show you. / 12:2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, / and I will make your name great, / so that you will exemplify divine blessing. / 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, / but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, / and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name. 12:4 So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do... (NET).

^b Gn. 12:6-7: 12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) 12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, To your descendants I will give this land... (NET). See also Gn. 13:14-17; 15:7, 18-21; 17:8.

^a Gk. ἀλλότριος, that is, as an other. God gave Abraham the land, but not possession of it. (See Gn. 15:7-18 [Heb. 11:13a note] and Gn. 28:4 [Heb. 11:20a note].)

^b See Gn. 12:8; 13:3, 5, 12, 18; 18:1-10.

^c Gn. 26:2-5: 26:2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you. 26:3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham. 26:4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants. 26:5 All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws (NET).

^d Gn. 28:10-15: 28:10 Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran. 28:11 He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place 28:12 and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it 28:13 and the Lord stood at its top. He said, I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. 28:14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants. 28:15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you! (NET).

^a See Heb. 12:22 (also 11:16).

^b Is this playing off of the city of Ur (Gn. 11:31; 15:7)?

^a Alterative translation: By [his? her?] faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she [or he?] counted him faithful who had promised.

^b Abraham's faith or Sarah's? Gn. 15:1-6: 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.... 15:5 The Lord took him outside and said, Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them! Then he said to him, So will your descendants be. 15:6 Abram believed the Lord [LXX: ἐπίστευσεν Αβραμ τῷ θεῷ], and the Lord considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty [LXX: ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην] (NET).

^c Gn. 18:10-12: 18:10 One of them said, I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son! (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him. 18:11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.) 18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too? (NET).

^d Gn. 21:1-2: 21:1 The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised. 21:2 So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him (NET).

^e Gk. πιστὸν ἡγήσατο τὸν ἐπαγγειλάμενον. Gn. 21:6-7: 21:6 Sarah said, God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. 21:7 She went on to say, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age! (NET).

^a Gn. 22:15-17: 22:15 The Lord's angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven 22:16 and said, ... 22:17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore [LXX: τὴν ἄμμον τὴν παρὰ τὸ χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης] (NET). See also Gn. 15:1-6 (note Heb. 11:11a) and promise to Isaac, Gn. 26:4 (note Heb. 11:9b). See also dust of the earth (LXX: ἡ ἄμμος τῆς γῆς), Gn. 13:16 and promise to Jacob, Gn. 28:14 (note Heb. 11:9c).

^b Gn. 17:17: Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety? (NET).

^a Of possession of the land and innumerable descendents. Gn. 15:7-18: 15:7 The Lord said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess. 15:8 But Abram said, O sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?...15:18 That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: To your descendants I give this land... (NET). Gn. 15:16: In the fourth generation your descendants will return here... (NET). See also Acts 7:5.

^b Gk. ξένοι καὶ παρεπίδημοί. Gn. 23:3: Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth, 23:4 I am a temporary settler [LXX: πάροικος καὶ παρεπίδημος] among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead (NET). Gn. 15:13: Then the Lord said to Abram, Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers [LXX: πάροικον] in a foreign country [LXX: γῇ οὐκ ἰδίᾳ, a land not their own]. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years (NET). Gn. 28:4 (note Heb. 11:20a): ...the land where you have been living as a temporary resident... (NET).

^c Gk. γῆ, land or earth. This is being assumed here to refer back to γῆ in 11:9. Most translations, though, read on the earth.

^a If they say they are not permanent residents, then they must view their residency as elsewhere.

^a Yet they did not consider Ur of the Chaldeans (see Gn. 11:31; 15:7) their place of residency either.

^a See Heb. 12:22 (also 11:10).

^a Gn. 22:1-12: 22:1 Some time after these things God tested Abraham.... 22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son. 22:11 But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, Abraham! Abraham! Here I am! he answered. 22:12 Do not harm the boy! the angel said. Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me (NET).

^b Gn. 22:2, 12, 16: your son, your only son. Meaning heir? Ishmael continued to be a part of the family, though was displaced as heir. Gn. 21:10-11: 21:10 So she said to Abraham, Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac! 21:11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son (NET). Gn. 25:5: Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac (NET). Gn. 25:9: His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite (NET). Gn. 25:12-18: This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham... (NET). Gn. 28:9: So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael... (NET).

^a Gn. 22:8: God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son, Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together. (NET).

^b Gk. ἐν παραβολῇ, in a parable.

^c Gn. 22:13-14: 22:13 Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place The Lord provides. It is said to this day, In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made (NET).

^a See Gn. 27:26-29; and Gn. 28:1-4: 28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him.... 28:3 May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation. 28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident [LXX: τὴν γῆν τῆς παροικήσεώς σου] (NET).

^b See Gn. 27:37-40.

^a See Gn. 48:8-20. Gn. 48:3-5: 48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. 48:4 He said to me, I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession. 48:5 Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are (NET).

^b Gn. 47:30-31 LXX: 47:30 But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me up out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word. 47:31 And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel did reverence, leaning on the top of his staff (Brenton).

^a Gn. 50:24-25: 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 50:25 Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place (NET).

^a Gk. ἀστεῖον τὸ παιδίον. Ex. 2:1-2: 2:1 A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi. 2:2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy [LXX: ἀστεῖον] child, she hid him for three months. (NET).

^b Ex. 1:22: Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live (NET).

^a Ex. 2:11: In those days, when Moses had grown up [LXX: μέγας γενόμενος], he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people (NET).