Hebrews 11:38 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caved of the earth.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Of them, the world was not worthy, wandering in solitude on mountains, in the caves and caverns of the earth.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
LSV Literal Standard Version
of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, and mountains, and caves, and the holes of the earth;
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
(of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts and mountains, and [in] dens and caverns of the earth.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains, and [in] dens and caves of the earth.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandered in wildernesses and mountaines, and dennes, and caues of the earth.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
The world was not worthy of them. They were always wandering about in the deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
which the worlde was not worthy of: they wadred in wildernes in moutaynes in dennes and caves of the erth.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and [in] mountains, and [in] caves, and [in] the holes of the earth;
FBV Free Bible Version
The world was not worthy to have such people who wandered in the deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
De los quales el mundo no era digno, andando descaminados por los desiertos, en los montes, y en las cuevas, y en las cavernas de la tierra.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
De los cuales el mundo no era digno; perdidos por los desiertos, por los montes, por las cuevas y por las cavernas de la tierra.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
A estos, que anduvieron sin rumbo por desiertos y montañas, por cuevas y cavernas, el mundo no los merecía.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Anduvieron por desiertos, montañas, cuevas y cavernas de la tierra. ¡El mundo no era digno de ellos!
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Les digo que el mundo no era digno de tener a tales personas errantes en los desiertos y montañas, viviendo en cuevas y en huecos debajo de la tierra.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
El mundo no era digno de ellos. Anduvieron errantes por desiertos y montañas, por cuevas y grietas de la tierra.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος, ἐν ἐρημίαις πλανώμενοι καὶ ὄρεσι καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
ων ουκ ην αξιος ο κοσμος, εν ερημιαις πλανωμενοι και ορεσιν και σπηλαιοις και ταις οπαις της γης.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος — ἐν ἐρημίαις πλανώμενοι καὶ ὄρεσι καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
ων ουκ ην αξιοσ ο κοσμοσ εν ερημιαισ πλανωμενοι και ορεσιν και σπηλαιοισ και ταισ οπαισ τησ γησ
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος, ἐπὶ ἐρημίαις πλανώμενοι καὶ ὄρεσιν καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος ⸀ἐπὶ ἐρημίαις πλανώμενοι καὶ ὄρεσι καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς·
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
quibus dignus non erat mundus: in solitudinibus errantes, in montibus, in speluncis, et in cavernis terræ.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
и҆́хже не бѣ̀ досто́инъ (ве́сь) мі́ръ, въ пꙋсты́нехъ скита́ющесѧ и҆ въ гора́хъ и҆ въ верте́пахъ и҆ въ про́пастехъ земны́хъ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
те, которых весь мир не был достоин, скитались по пустыням и горам, по пещерам и ущельям земли.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
των οποίων δεν ήτο άξιος ο κόσμος, πλανώμενοι εν ερημίαις και όρεσι και σπηλαίοις και ταις τρύπαις της γης.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
којих не беше достојан свет, по пустињама потуцаше се, и по горама и по пећинама и по рупама земаљским.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
kojih ne beše dostojan svet, po pustinjama potucaše se, i po gorama i po pećinama i po rupama zemaljskim.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَهُمْ لَمْ يَكُنِ ٱلْعَالَمُ مُسْتَحِقًّا لَهُمْ. تَائِهِينَ فِي بَرَارِيَّ وَجِبَالٍ وَمَغَايِرَ وَشُقُوقِ ٱلْأَرْضِ.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC