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The term "whereby" is an adverb and conjunction used in the Bible to indicate the means or method by which something is accomplished or occurs. It is often employed in scriptural passages to connect actions, events, or conditions with their causes or instruments. In the context of biblical literature, "whereby" serves to elucidate the divine or human means through which God's purposes are fulfilled or human actions are justified.

Biblical Usage

1. Means of Salvation and Justification: In the New Testament, "whereby" is frequently used to describe the means by which believers are saved or justified. For instance, in 2 Peter 1:4 , it is written, "Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires." Here, "whereby" (translated as "through them") indicates the promises of God as the means by which believers partake in the divine nature.

2. Divine Provision and Guidance: The term is also used to describe the means by which God provides for and guides His people. In Acts 4:12 , it is stated, "Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." The phrase "by which" serves the same function as "whereby," emphasizing the exclusivity of salvation through Jesus Christ.

3. Covenantal Relationships: "Whereby" is used in the context of covenants to describe the means by which God establishes and maintains His covenantal relationships with humanity. In Hebrews 9:15 , it is written, "Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant." The phrase "so that" functions similarly to "whereby," indicating the means by which the new covenant is enacted through Christ's sacrifice.

4. Moral and Ethical Conduct: The term is also employed to describe the means by which believers are to conduct themselves in accordance with God's will. In Ephesians 4:1 , Paul urges, "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received." The calling is the means "whereby" believers are to live out their faith.

Theological Implications

The use of "whereby" in Scripture underscores the importance of understanding the means and methods through which God's will is accomplished. It highlights the necessity of divine intervention and grace in the process of salvation, sanctification, and the fulfillment of God's promises. The term also emphasizes the role of Jesus Christ as the central means of redemption and the mediator of the new covenant, reinforcing the foundational Christian belief in the exclusivity of Christ as the way to salvation.

In summary, "whereby" serves as a critical linguistic tool in the Bible, linking divine action with human response and illustrating the means by which God's purposes are realized in the world.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (adv.) By which; -- used relatively.

2. (adv.) By what; how; -- used interrogatively.

Greek

4102. pistis -- faith, faithfulness
... discussion). Faith is always the and involves hearing His voice – whereby the
believer lays hold of His preferred-will (cf. J. Calvin). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4102.htm - 18k

Strong's Hebrew

834. asher -- who, which, that
... what* (8), whatever (16), whatever* (40), when (44), when* (1), whenever (1), where
(49), where you how (1), where* (136), whereas* (1), whereby (1), wherein (1 ...
/hebrew/834.htm - 7k

4100. mah -- what? how? anything
... used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses -- how (long, oft, (-
soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in ...
/hebrew/4100.htm - 6k

4482. men -- string (of a harp)
... to apportion; a part; hence, a musical chord (as parted into strings) -- in (the
same) (Psalm 68:23), stringed instrument (Psalm 150:4), whereby (Psalm 45:8 ...
/hebrew/4482.htm - 5k

Library

Who Teach: that the Grace Whereby we are Converted to God is Only ...
... Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine Paragraph 7 Who teach: That the grace
whereby we are converted to God is only a gentle? Who ...
/.../various/the canons of dordt/paragraph 7 who teach that 3.htm

And Further, Analogy, Whereby the Agreement of Both Testaments is ...
... Section 7. And further, analogy, whereby the agreement of both Testaments
is plainly seen? 7. And further, analogy, whereby the ...
/.../augustine/on the profit of believing /section 7 and further analogy.htm

Whether the Fire Whereby the World Will be Cleansed Will be of the ...
... OF THE FIRE OF THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION (NINE ARTICLES) Whether the fire whereby
the world will be cleansed will be of the same species with elemental fire? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the fire whereby the.htm

What are the Outward Means Whereby Christ Communicateth to us the ...
... Question 88: What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us
the benefits of redemption? A88: The outward and ordinary ...
/.../anonymous/the westminster shorter catechism/question 88 0 0 what are the.htm

What was the Sin Whereby Our First Parents Fell from the Estate ...
... Question 15: What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate
wherein they were created? A15: The sin whereby our ...
/.../anonymous/the westminster shorter catechism/question 15 0 what was the.htm

Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away from the ...
... Book XII. Chapter 8."Of the Misdirected Love Whereby the Will Fell Away
from the Immutable to the Mutable Good. This I do know ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 8 of the misdirected love.htm

Whether the Ingratitude Whereby a Subsequent Sin Causes the Return ...
... OF THE RETURN OF SINS WHICH HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY PENANCE (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether
the ingratitude whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of previous sins ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the ingratitude whereby a.htm

"Whereby we Cry, Abba, Father. "
... EPISTLE TO THE Sermon XL. "Whereby we cry, Abba, Father.". Rom. viii.
15.""Whereby we cry, Abba, Father.". All that know any thing ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xl whereby we cry.htm

"Whereby we Cry, Abba, Father. "
... EPISTLE TO THE Sermon XXXIX. "Whereby we cry, Abba, Father.". Rom. viii.
15.""Whereby we cry, Abba, Father.". As there is a light ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xxxix whereby we cry.htm

Treats of Several Ways Whereby Our Lord Quickens the Soul; There ...
... TREATS OF SEVERAL WAYS WHEREBY OUR LORD QUICKENS THE SOUL; THERE APPEARS NO CAUSE
FOR ALARM IN THEM ALTHOUGH THEY ARE SIGNAL FAVOURS OF A VERY EXALTED NATURE. ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter ii treats of several.htm

Thesaurus

Whereby (46 Occurrences)
... interrogatively. Multi-Version Concordance Whereby (46 Occurrences). Luke 1:18 And
Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for ...
/w/whereby.htm - 20k

Dies (71 Occurrences)
... Numbers 35:17 And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die,
and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. ...
/d/dies.htm - 26k

Rebellion (51 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have
sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have ...
/r/rebellion.htm - 22k

Anthropomorphism
... The exigencies of human thinking require us to symbolize the nature of Deity in
some psychical way whereby He shall have for us some real meaning; hence those ...
/a/anthropomorphism.htm - 20k

Psychology
... doctrines of emanation, by which is meant a natural, forth-flowing life from God
into the human sphere; it teaches a doctrine of creation, whereby it declares ...
/p/psychology.htm - 38k

Predestination
... 3. Nature of Predestination: Predestination is that aspect of foreordination Whereby
the salvation of the believer is taken to he effected in accordance with ...
/p/predestination.htm - 26k

Fashion (24 Occurrences)
... better the Revised Version (British and American) "fashioned," the reference being
to "the fictitious, illusory transformation whereby evil assumes the mask of ...
/f/fashion.htm - 21k

Smote (281 Occurrences)
... Numbers 35:17 And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die,
and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ...
/s/smote.htm - 39k

Judaeus
... Moreover, contemporary angelology and demonology enabled him to devise a scheme
whereby the pure Deity could be linked with the gross world, notwithstanding ...
/j/judaeus.htm - 29k

Philo
... Moreover, contemporary angelology and demonology enabled him to devise a scheme
whereby the pure Deity could be linked with the gross world, notwithstanding ...
/p/philo.htm - 29k

Resources

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Whereby (46 Occurrences)

Luke 1:18
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
(KJV ASV YLT)

Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
(WEB KJV ASV)

Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
(KJV)

Acts 11:14
Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
(KJV ASV DBY)

Acts 19:40
For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
(KJV)

Romans 8:15
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
(KJV ASV DBY)

Romans 14:19
So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
(ASV DBY)

Romans 14:21
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
(KJV ASV)

Ephesians 3:4
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
(KJV ASV)

Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
(KJV WBS)

Philippians 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
(KJV ASV)

Hebrews 10:29
of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
(DBY)

Hebrews 12:28
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
(KJV ASV)

2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
(KJV ASV WBS)

2 Peter 3:6
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
(KJV)

1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
(KJV ASV)

Genesis 15:8
And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
(KJV JPS ASV YLT)

Genesis 44:5
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Leviticus 5:3
Or when he cometh against uncleanness of man, even any of his uncleanness whereby he is unclean, and it hath been hidden from him, and he hath known, and hath been guilty:
(YLT)

Leviticus 22:5
or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Numbers 3:48
and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'
(YLT)

Numbers 5:8
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.
(KJV JPS ASV YLT)

Numbers 17:5
And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
(KJV)

Numbers 35:17
And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
(See JPS ASV)

Numbers 35:18
Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
(See JPS ASV)

Numbers 35:23
or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
(See JPS ASV)

Deuteronomy 7:19
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Deuteronomy 28:20
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

1 Samuel 20:33
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
(KJV JPS ASV)

1 Kings 8:50
and forgive thy people their sin against thee, and all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against thee, and give them to find compassion with those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
(DBY)

Psalms 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
(KJV)

Psalms 45:8
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
(KJV)

Psalms 68:9
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
(KJV)

Jeremiah 1:16
And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
(KJV YLT)

Jeremiah 17:19
Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
(KJV JPS ASV)

Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Jeremiah 33:8
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY)

Jeremiah 33:16
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.
(See JPS ASV)

Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
(KJV)

Ezekiel 20:25
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
(KJV JPS DBY)

Ezekiel 39:26
After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
(KJV ASV)

Ezekiel 40:49
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
(KJV ASV DBY YLT)

Ezekiel 46:9
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Ezekiel 47:13
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT)

Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
(KJV)

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