Hebrews 2:7

2:7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.

You crowned him with glory and honor. ¹ 

Hebrews 2:9

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ²  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ³  so that by God’s grace he would experience ⁴  death on behalf of everyone.

[2:7]  ¹ tc Several witnesses, many of them early and important (א A C D* P Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat co), have at the end of v 7, “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.” Other mss, not quite as impressive in weight, lack the words (Ì⁴⁶ B D² Ï). In spite of the impressive external evidence for the longer reading, it is most likely a scribal addition to conform the text of Hebrews to Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX). Conformity of a NT quotation of the OT to the LXX was a routine scribal activity, and can hardly be in doubt here as to the cause of the longer reading.

[2:9]  ² tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

[2:9]  ³ tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

[2:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).