Acts 7:47

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But it was Solomon who built Him a house.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σολομῶν δὲ ὠκοδόμησεν αὐτῷ οἶκον.

Transliteration

Solomōn de ōkodomēsen for-him oikon.

Grammar Details

• *Solomōn*: nominative, masculine, singular - Solomon
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *ōkodomēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - built
• *oikon*: accusative, masculine, singular - house/temple

Word Meanings

• *ōkodomēsen*: built/constructed/erected
• *oikon*: house/temple/dwelling

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But Solomon built him an house.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  But Solomon built Him a house.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  But Solomon built him an house.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But Solomon built him a house.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But Solomon built him an house.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But Salomon bylt him an housse.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But Salomon buylte hi an house.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But Solomon built him an house.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But Solomon buylt hym an house.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But Solomon built him an house.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But Solomon built him a house.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and Solomon built Him an house.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But Solomon built him a house.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But Solomon built him a house.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But Solomon was the builder of his house.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But Solomon built him a house.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But Solomon built a house for him.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 8:20 : 20 The LORD has fulfilled His word that He spoke: I have arisen in place of my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have also built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
• 2 Sam 7:13 : 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
• 1 Kgs 6:37-38 : 37 In the fourth year, in the month of Ziv (the second month), the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 38 In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (the eighth month), the house was completed in every detail according to its specifications. Solomon built it in seven years.
• 1 Kgs 7:13-51 : 13 King Solomon sent for Hiram from Tyre. 14 Hiram was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a craftsman from Tyre who worked with bronze. Hiram was endowed with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge to perform all kinds of craftsmanship in bronze. He came to King Solomon and carried out all the assigned work. 15 Hiram cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high, and a cord measuring twelve cubits circled around each pillar. 16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars, each capital was five cubits tall. 17 He made lattice designs with twisted chains for the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. 18 Hiram made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each network to cover the capitals at the tops of the pillars. He did the same for both capitals. 19 The capitals on the tops of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, and they were four cubits high. 20 The capitals on the two pillars also had shapes of rounded bulges above the bowl-shaped lattice, with two hundred pomegranates arranged in rows around each capital. 21 He set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. He set up the right-hand pillar and named it Jachin, and the left-hand pillar and named it Boaz. 22 The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So, the work of the pillars was completed. 23 Hiram made a large cast basin, called 'The Sea', which was ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. 24 Below the rim of the basin, there were decorative gourds encircling it, ten per cubit, entirely cast in one piece with the basin. 25 The basin rested on twelve bronze oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the basin sat on their backs, and all their hind parts were turned inward. 26 The thickness of the basin was a handbreadth, and its rim was fashioned like the rim of a cup, resembling a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths. 27 He made ten bronze stands, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. 28 This is how the stands were constructed: they had panels enclosed within frames. 29 On the panels between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work. 30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with axles and supports. Its wash basin rested on cast supports attached with wreaths on each side. 31 The opening of the stand, from inside the capital upwards, was one cubit. Its opening was round, shaped like a pedestal, measuring a cubit and a half. Around its opening were carvings, and its frames were square, not circular. 32 The four wheels were under the frames, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. Each wheel was one and a half cubits high. 33 The workmanship of the wheels was like that of a chariot wheel; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast metal. 34 Each stand had four supports at the four corners of its base. These supports were part of the stand itself. 35 At the top of the stand was a circular band half a cubit high, and the top of the stand had its supports and frames crafted as part of it. 36 He adorned the panels of the stand and its frames with engravings of cherubim, lions, and palm trees according to the space on each, with wreaths surrounding them. 37 This was how he made the ten stands: all of them were cast in the same mold, with the same size and shape. 38 Hiram made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits. One basin was placed on each of the ten stands. 39 He placed five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. The Sea he placed on the southeast side of the temple. 40 Hiram also made the basins, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Hiram completed all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon for the house of the Lord. 41 He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals at the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals on the top of the pillars, 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the bowl-shaped capitals at the top of the pillars), 43 the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands, 44 the Sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it, 45 and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All these articles that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze. 46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 47 Solomon left all the articles unweighed because they were so numerous; the weight of the bronze could not be determined. 48 Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence, 49 the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary), the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, all of gold, 50 the basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and censers of pure gold, and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple. 51 So all the work King Solomon did for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
• 1 Kgs 5:1-6:2 : 1 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and up to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. 2 Solomon's daily provisions were thirty measures of the finest flour and sixty measures of regular flour. 3 This included ten fattened head of cattle, twenty pasture-fed cattle, and a hundred sheep—besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. 4 He ruled over all the region west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, and over all the kings in that region. He had peace on all sides around him. 5 Judah and Israel lived in safety, each man under his own vine and fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 6 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. 7 These officers provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table, each during his assigned month, without fail. 8 They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the proper places, each officer according to his duty. 9 God gave Solomon wisdom, very great understanding, and vast insight, as expansive as the sand on the seashore. 10 Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. 11 He was wiser than any other man, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. His fame spread to all the surrounding nations. 12 He spoke three thousand proverbs and composed one thousand five songs. 13 He spoke about trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals, birds, creeping things, and fish. 14 People came from all the nations to hear Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. 15 King Hiram of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that Solomon had been anointed king in place of his father, David, and Hiram had always been a friend of David. 16 Then Solomon sent back this message to Hiram: 17 You know that my father, David, could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars waged against him from all directions until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet. 18 But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune. 19 So I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD told my father, David, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’ 20 Now then, command that cedar trees be cut for me from Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that we have no one among us skilled in cutting timber like the Sidonians. 21 When Hiram heard Solomon's words, he greatly rejoiced and said, ‘Blessed be the LORD today, who has given David a wise son to rule over this great people!’ 22 Hiram sent this reply to Solomon: ‘I have heard the message you sent me, and I will do all you desire concerning the cedar and cypress timber. 23 My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you designate. I will break the rafts apart there, and you can take them away. You will fulfill my request by providing food for my household.’ 24 So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the cedar wood and cypress wood he wanted. 25 In return, Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as provision for his household, and twenty cors of pure olive oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. 26 The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together. 27 King Solomon conscripted a labor force from all Israel; the labor force consisted of thirty thousand men. 28 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the labor force. 29 Solomon had seventy thousand men who carried burdens and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains. 30 Besides these, there were three thousand three hundred chief officers, appointed by Solomon, who supervised the people doing the work. 31 At the king's command, they quarried large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with hewn stones. 32 The builders of Solomon, Hiram, and the men of Gebal carved and prepared the timber and stone to build the temple. 1 In the four hundred eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv (the second month), he began building the house of the LORD. 2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
• 1 Chr 17:1 : 1 When David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am dwelling in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."
• 2 Chr 2:1-4 : 1 Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to carry burdens, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee them. 2 Solomon sent word to Hiram, the king of Tyre, saying, "Just as you dealt with my father David, and sent him cedar timber to build a house to live in," 3 "I am now building a house in honor of the name of the LORD my God. It will be dedicated to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, arranging the bread of presence continuously, and offering burnt offerings every morning and evening, on Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for Israel forever." 4 The house I am building will be large because our God is greater than all gods.
• 2 Chr 3:1 : 1 Then Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
• Zech 6:12-13 : 12 Tell him: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Here is a man whose name is Branch; He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD. 13 Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He will bear majesty; He will sit and rule on His throne. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be a peaceful council between the two of them."