Acts 10:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγένετο δὲ πρόσπεινος, καὶ ἤθελεν γεύσασθαι: παρασκευαζόντων δὲ ἐκείνων, ἐπέπεσεν ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἔκστασις,

Transliteration

Egeneto de prospeinos, and ēthelen geusasthai: paraskeuazontōn de those, epepesen upon him ekstasis,

Grammar Details

*Egeneto*: aorist middle, 3rd singular - became
*de*: postpositive particle - and/but
*prospeinos*: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - very hungry
*ēthelen*: imperfect active, 3rd singular - was wanting
*geusasthai*: aorist middle infinitive - to taste/eat
*paraskeuazontōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - preparing
*epepesen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - fell upon
*ekstasis*: nominative, feminine, singular - trance/ecstasy

Word Meanings

*Egeneto*: became/happened/occurred
*prospeinos*: very hungry/famished
*ēthelen*: was wanting/was desiring/wished
*geusasthai*: to taste/to eat
*paraskeuazontōn*: preparing/making ready
*epepesen*: fell upon/came upon
*ekstasis*: trance/ecstasy/state of amazement

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Referenced Verses

Acts 22:17 : 17 And it came to pass, that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
2 Cor 12:2-4 : 2 I know a man in Christ, {G4253} fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth), 4 how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet
Rev 4:2-3 : 2 {G2532} Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; 3 and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.
Num 24:4 : 4 He saith, who heareth the words of God, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
Num 24:16 : 16 He saith, who heareth the words of God, And knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
Ezek 8:1-3 : 1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Ezek 11:24 : 24 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Ezek 40:2 : 2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
Matt 4:2 : 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
Matt 12:1-3 : 1 At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat. 2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath. 3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;
Matt 21:18 : 18 Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered.

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