Acts 2:20

American Standard Version (1901)

The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable [day] .

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ ἥλιος μεταστραφήσεται εἰς σκότος, καὶ ἡ σελήνη εἰς αἷμα, πρὶν ἡ ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἡμέραν Κυρίου τὴν μεγάλην καὶ ἐπιφανῆ:

Transliteration

The hēlios metastraphēsetai into skotos, and the selēnē into haima, before the elthein the hēmeran of Kyriou the megalēn and epiphanē:

Grammar Details

• *hēlios*: nominative, masculine, singular - sun
• *metastraphēsetai*: future passive, 3rd person singular - will be turned/changed
• *skotos*: accusative, neuter, singular - darkness
• *selēnē*: nominative, feminine, singular - moon
• *haima*: accusative, neuter, singular - blood
• *elthein*: aorist active infinitive - to come
• *hēmeran*: accusative, feminine, singular - day
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Lord
• *megalēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - great
• *epiphanē*: accusative, feminine, singular - glorious/notable/manifest

Word Meanings

• *metastraphēsetai*: will be turned/changed/transformed
• *skotos*: darkness/gloom
• *elthein*: to come/arrive
• *megalēn*: great/large/mighty
• *epiphanē*: glorious/notable/manifest/illustrious

Referenced Verses

• Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
• 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
• 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
• Amos 8:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
• Joel 2:1 : 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
• Joel 3:14 : 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision.
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• Luke 21:25 : 25 And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;
• Mal 4:5 : 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.
• Mark 13:24 : 24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
• 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• Zeph 2:2-3 : 2 before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before the day of Jehovah's anger come upon you. 3 Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.
• Isa 2:12-21 : 12 For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; 13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15 and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, 16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. 18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth. [ 20 In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
• Isa 13:9 : 9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
• Isa 13:15 : 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
• Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
• Isa 34:8 : 8 For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
• Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Rev 6:12 : 12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
• Rev 16:8 : 8 And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.