Acts 6:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the {G40} Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπισκέψασθε οὖν, ἀδελφοί, ἄνδρας ἐξ ὑμῶν μαρτυρουμένους ἑπτά, πλήρεις Πνεύματος Ἁγίου καὶ σοφίας, οὓς καταστήσωμεν ἐπὶ τῆς χρείας ταύτης.

Transliteration

Episkepsasthe oun, adelphoi, andras from hymōn martyroumenous hepta, plēreis Pneumatos Hagiou and sophias, whom katastēsōmen epi the chreias this.

Grammar Details

• *Episkepsasthe*: aorist, middle, imperative, 2nd person, plural - look out/select/consider
• *oun*: conjunction, inferential - therefore/then
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *andras*: accusative, masculine, plural - men
• *hymōn*: genitive, 2nd person, plural pronoun - of you/your
• *martyroumenous*: present, passive, participle, accusative, masculine, plural - being well attested/of good reputation
• *hepta*: numeral (indeclinable) - seven
• *plēreis*: accusative, masculine, plural, adjective - full/filled
• *Pneumatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagiou*: genitive, neuter, singular, adjective - Holy
• *sophias*: genitive, feminine, singular - wisdom
• *katastēsōmen*: aorist, active, subjunctive, 1st person, plural - may appoint/put in charge
• *epi*: preposition + genitive - over/upon
• *chreias*: genitive, feminine, singular - need/duty/business

Word Meanings

• *Episkepsasthe*: look out/select/consider/examine
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren/fellow believers
• *martyroumenous*: being well attested/of good reputation/testified about
• *plēreis*: full/filled/complete
• *Pneumatos*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *katastēsōmen*: may appoint/put in charge/establish
• *chreias*: need/duty/business/task

Referenced Verses

• Deut 1:13 : 13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
• Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
• 1 John 3:14-16 : 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {G80} abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• 3 John 1:12 : 12 Demetrius hath the witness of all [men], and of the truth itself: yea, {G2532} we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is true.
• Gen 41:38-39 : 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is? 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou:
• Num 11:16-25 : 16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. 18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. 22 Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? 23 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Is Jehovah's hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. 24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Jehovah: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. 25 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
• Num 27:18-19 : 18 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thy hand upon him; 19 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
• Job 32:7-8 : 7 I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom. 8 But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
• Isa 11:2-5 : 2 And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
• Isa 28:6 : 6 and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
• Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God doth instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him.
• Matt 23:8 : 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
• Acts 1:21 : 21 Of the men therefore that have companied with us {G1722} all the time {G1722} that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
• Acts 2:4 : 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
• Acts 6:6 : 6 whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
• Acts 9:30 : 30 And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
• Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and one that feareth God, and well reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned [of God] by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee.
• Acts 13:2-3 : 2 And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
• Acts 15:23 : 23 and they wrote thus by {G5495} them, The apostles and the elders, {G2532} brethren, unto the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting:
• Acts 16:2 : 2 The same was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
• Acts 22:12 : 12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews that dwelt there,
• 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one {G3303} is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
• 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 And when I arrive, whomsoever {G1437} ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:
• 2 Cor 8:19-21 : 19 and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in [the matter] [of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness: 20 Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us: 21 for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
• Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
• 1 Tim 3:7-9 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 8 Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; 9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 10 And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless. 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well. 13 For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly; 15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints' feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.