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And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you, for it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body should depart into Gehenna.

Lexicon

Verse part Definition: Part of speech: Strong's: Greek: Transliteration:
if If. Conj H1487 εἰ ei
right On the right hand, right hand, right. Adj-NFS H1188 δεξιά dexia
hand A hand. N-NFS H5495 χεὶρ cheir
causes you to stumble To cause to stumble, cause to sin, cause to become indignant, shock, offend. V-PIA-3S H4624 σκανδαλίζει skandalizei
cut it off To cut out (off, away), remove, prevent. V-AMA-2S H1581 ἔκκοψον ekkopson
cast [it] (a) to cast, throw, rush, (b) often, in the weaker sense: to place, put, drop. V-AMA-2S H906 βάλε bale
it is better To bring together, collect; to be profitable to. V-PIA-3S H4851 συμφέρει sumpherei
one One. Adj-NNS H1520 ἓν en
Analysis:

One: God

Refers to HaShem (God), Who is One. This number can also refer to unity. The first place the number "one" occurs is in Genesis 1:5. There one reads, "And there was an evening and there was a morning— one day". Later on in this same book of Genesis, it is stated concerning the man and his wife, "And they became one flesh" (Genesis 2:24). It is very significant that in both of these examples there was a multiplicity for the subject. In the first example, the evening and the morning became one day and in the second example, it was Adam and Eve who became one flesh.

One of the most famous passages in the Torah concerning HaShem is Deuteronomy 6:4 which states, "Hear O Israel the Lord your God the Lord is One." The question that a person must ask himself is what is the connection between the use of the Hebrew word אחד "one" which identifies a multiplicity being one and the fact that the Lord God of Israel is One? The answer is that the Hebrew word אחד can relate to the concept for one as in "unification". There is another Hebrew word that would have been possible to be used if the author wanted to refer to an absolute oneness or singleness. This is the Hebrew word יחיד. In fact, there is a well-known prayer in Judaism which states, "אחד ואין יחיד כיחודו". This phrase should be translated as, "(God is) One and there is no singularity as His singularity." The idea that is being expressed in this prayer is that the Lord God of Israel is One; but not an absolute One; rather there is a uniqueness and a complexity to His Oneness.

The number one is frequently employed to express in the Scriptures one object, such as one man or one tabernacle. This usage would be the simple or common purpose that the number one or for that matter any number, would appear in a Biblical text. Often the appearance of a number does not contain any of the significance that Hebrew numerology might offer. Therefore, the reader must always consider when coming across a verse which contains a number, that the number only expresses an amount and no additional significance. 

Because the number one is often associated with God, there is a unique phenomenon in the Scriptures concerning this number. Sometimes the number one is employed to express a unique relationship that the object has to HaShem. For example,

"And it will be one day, it will be known to HaShem..." Zechariah 14:7

In the text above, Zechariah could have stated simply, "And it will be a day…" The fact that the prophet said "one day" is to convey that this day is uniquely related to God. Similarly, it is stated by the prophet Ezekiel in chapter 37, "one King", "one nation" and "one Shepherd" (see Ezekiel 37:22, 24). Each of these objects—King, nation and Shepherd—has a connection to HaShem. The King and Shepherd is Messiah Yeshua, the Son of God and the one nation is Israel, the people of God.

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members A bodily organ, limb, member. N-GNP H3196 μελῶν melōn
And And, even, also, namely. Conj H2532 καὶ kai
whole All, the whole, entire, complete. Adj-NNS H3650 ὅλον olon
body Body, flesh; the body of the Church. N-NNS H4983 σῶμα sōma
should depart To come or go away from, depart, return, arrive, go after, follow. V-ASA-3S H565 ἀπέλθῃ apelthē
Gehenna. Gehenna, and originally the name of a valley or cavity near Jerusalem, a place underneath the earth, a place of punishment for evil. N-AFS H1067 γέενναν geennan

Parallel Verses

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Berean Bible And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you, for it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body should depart into Gehenna.
King James Bible And if your thy right hand causes you to stumble, offend thee, cut it off off, and cast it from you, thee: for it is better profitable for you thee that one of your thy members should perish perish, and not that your thy whole body should depart be cast into Gehenna.hell.
Hebrew Greek English And if "If your right hand causes makes you to stumble, cut it off and cast throw it from you, you; for it is better for you that to lose one of the parts of your members should perish and not that body, than for your whole body should depart to go into Gehenna.hell.
New American Standard Bible 1995 And if "If your right hand causes makes you to stumble, cut it off and cast throw it from you, you; for it is better for you that to lose one of the parts of your members should perish and not that body, than for your whole body should depart to go into Gehenna.hell.