Acts 2:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καί γε ἐπὶ τοὺς δούλους μου καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς δούλας μου ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πνεύματός μου· καὶ προφητεύσουσιν:

Transliteration

And ge upon the doulous of me and upon the doulas of me in the hēmerais those ekcheō from the Pneumatos of me; and prophēteusousin:

Grammar Details

*ge*: particle - indeed/even/at least
*doulous*: accusative, masculine, plural - male servants/slaves
*doulas*: accusative, feminine, plural - female servants/slaves
*hēmerais*: dative, feminine, plural - days
*ekcheō*: future active, 1st person singular - I will pour out
*Pneumatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - Spirit
*prophēteusousin*: future active, 3rd person plural - they will prophesy

Word Meanings

*ge*: indeed/even/truly
*doulous*: male servants/slaves/bondservants
*doulas*: female servants/slaves/handmaidens
*ekcheō*: I will pour out/pour forth
*prophēteusousin*: they will prophesy/speak by divine inspiration

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gal 3:28 : 28 There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one [man] in Christ Jesus.
Col 3:11 : 11 where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
Acts 21:10 : 10 And as we tarried there some days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
1 Cor 7:21-22 : 21 Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if {G2532} thou canst become free, use [it] rather. 22 For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise {G2532} he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.

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