• Romans 11:8
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 8 καθάπερ according to which (things) even γέγραπται it has been written Ἔδωκεν Gave αὐτοῖς to them ὁ the θεὸς God πνεῦμα spirit κατανύξεως, of deep sleep, ὀφθαλμοὺς eyes τοῦ of the μὴ not βλέπειν to be looking καὶ and ὦτα ears τοῦ of the μὴ not ἀκούειν, to be hearing, ἕως until τῆς the σήμερον today ἡμέρας. day.

  • Romans 11:8
    King James Version

    • 8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

  • Romans Study Notes—Chapter 11
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 11:8

      God: In this verse, Paul quotes wording from De 29:4 and Isa 29:10. The Hebrew text of these verses does not use “God,” but Paul may have quoted from the Septuagint, which according to most manuscripts reads at De 29:4 (29:3, LXX): “The Lord God has not given . . . ” For reasons stated in App. C1, copies of the Septuagint existing in Paul’s day likely read: “Jehovah God has not given . . . ” In fact, there is evidence that a fragment containing De 29:4 in the papyrus collection Fouad Inv. 266 uses the Tetragrammaton in the Greek text, followed by the Greek term for “God.” So Paul may have made a slightly abbreviated quote from the Septuagint, using only “God,” which is the reading found in available Greek manuscripts of Ro 11:8. (Compare a similarly abbreviated quote at Ac 7:37; see study note.) The Hebrew texts of both De 29:4 and Isa 29:10 use the divine name, and this is reflected in some translations of Ro 11:8 into Hebrew (referred to as J7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 20 in App. C4) that use the Tetragrammaton here.