Acts 14:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καίτοιγε οὐκ ἀμάρτυρον ἑαυτὸν ἀφῆκεν, ἀγαθοποιῶν, οὐρανόθεν ἡμῖν ὑετοὺς διδοὺς, καὶ καιροὺς καρποφόρους, ἐμπιπλῶν τροφῆς καὶ εὐφροσύνης τὰς καρδίας ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Kaitoige not amartyron himself aphēken, agathopoiōn, from ouranothen to us hyetous didous, and kairous karpophorous, empiplōn of trophēs and euphrosynēs the kardias of us.

Grammar Details

• *Kaitoige*: conjunction - although/and yet
• *amartyron*: accusative masculine singular - without witness
• *aphēken*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - left/allowed
• *agathopoiōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - doing good
• *ouranothen*: adverb - from heaven
• *hyetous*: accusative masculine plural - rains
• *didous*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - giving
• *kairous*: accusative masculine plural - seasons/times
• *karpophorous*: accusative masculine plural - fruit-bearing/fruitful
• *empiplōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - filling
• *trophēs*: genitive feminine singular - food/nourishment
• *euphrosynēs*: genitive feminine singular - gladness/joy
• *kardias*: accusative feminine plural - hearts

Word Meanings

• *amartyron heauton aphēken*: he did not leave himself without witness/he did not leave himself without testimony
• *agathopoiōn*: doing good/bestowing benefits
• *hyetous*: rains/rainfall
• *kairous karpophorous*: fruitful seasons/fruit-bearing times
• *empiplōn trophēs kai euphrosynēs*: filling with food and joy/filling with nourishment and gladness

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:10 : 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
• Deut 11:14 : 14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
• Rom 1:19-20 : 19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. 20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
• Lev 26:4 : 4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
• Deut 28:12 : 12 Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.
• 1 Kgs 18:1 : 1 Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.
• Neh 9:25 : 25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
• Deut 8:12-14 : 12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them; 13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; 14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
• Job 37:6 : 6 For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
• Job 38:26-28 : 26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass? 28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
• Ps 19:1-4 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. 2 Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge. 3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
• Ps 36:5-7 : 5 Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds. 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast. 7 How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.
• Ps 52:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
• Ps 68:9-9 : 9 You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage. 10 Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
• Ps 104:24-28 : 24 O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made. 25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered. 26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything. 27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. 28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
• Ps 145:9 : 9 The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works.
• Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. 16 By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.
• Ps 147:7-8 : 7 Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music. 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
• Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
• Isa 22:13 : 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
• Jer 5:24 : 24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
• Ezek 34:26 : 26 And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.
• Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
• Luke 6:35 : 35 But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
• Acts 17:27-28 : 27 So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us: 28 For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.