Acts 7:51

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Ye styfnecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers dyd, so do ye.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Σκληροτράχηλοι καὶ ἀπερίτμητοι τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ὠσίν, ὑμεῖς ἀεὶ τῷ Πνεύματι τῷ Ἁγίῳ ἀντιπίπτετε: ὡς οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, καὶ ὑμεῖς.

Transliteration

Sklērotrachēloi and aperitmētoi in-the kardia and in-the ōsin, you aei to-the Pneumati to-the Hagiō antipiptete: as the pateres of-you, also you.

Grammar Details

• *Sklērotrachēloi*: vocative, masculine, plural - stiff-necked ones
• *aperitmētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - uncircumcised
• *kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
• *ōsin*: dative, neuter, plural - ears
• *aei*: adverb - always/continually
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *antipiptete*: present active indicative, 2nd plural - resist/oppose
• *pateres*: nominative, masculine, plural - fathers/ancestors

Word Meanings

• *Sklērotrachēloi*: stiff-necked/stubborn/obstinate
• *aperitmētoi*: uncircumcised/unclean/unreceptive
• *kardia*: heart/mind/inner self
• *aei*: always/continually/perpetually
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *antipiptete*: resist/oppose/fight against

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:41 : 41 Therfore, I also wyll walke contrarie vnto them, and wyl bring them into the lande of their enemies: And then at the least way their vncircumcised heartes shalbe tamed, and they shall willingly accept their sinne.
• Deut 10:16 : 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskinne of your heart, and be no more stifnecked.
• Exod 32:9 : 9 And the Lorde sayd vnto Moyses, I haue seene this people: and beholde, it is a styfnecked people.
• Exod 33:5 : 5 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses: Say vnto the chyldren of Israel, ye are a styfnecked people: I must come once sodaynly vpon you, and make an ende of you: therefore nowe put thy goodly rayment from thee, that I may wyt what to do vnto thee.
• Exod 33:3 : 3 Unto a lande that floweth with mylke and hony. For I wyll not go amongest you my selfe: for ye are a styfnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way.
• Isa 63:10 : 10 But after they prouoked hym to wrath and vexed his holy spirite, he was their enemie, and fought against them hym selfe.
• Jer 4:4 : 4 Be circumcised in the Lorde, and cut away the foreskynne of your heartes all ye of Iuda, and all the indwellers of Hierusalem: that myne indignation breake not out lyke fire, and kindle, so that no man may quenche it, because of the wickednesse of your imaginations.
• Jer 6:10 : 10 But vnto whom shall I speake? whom shall I warne that he may take heede? Their eares are so vncircumcised, that they may not heare: beholde, they take the worde of God but for a scorne, and haue no lust therto.
• Deut 31:27 : 27 For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke: whyle I am yet alyue with you this day, ye haue ben disobedient vnto the Lorde, and howe much more after my death?
• Neh 9:30 : 30 Yet many yeres diddest thou forbeare them, and testifiedst vnto them through thy spirite, euen by the hand of thy prophetes, and yet would they not heare: therefore gauest thou them into the hand of the nations of the landes.
• Ps 78:8 : 8 And that they be not as their forefathers were a rebellious and a mutable generation: a generation that directed not their heart aright, and whose spirite cleaued not stedfastly vnto God.
• Ezek 44:7 : 7 Seeing ye haue brought into my sanctuary straungers hauing vncircumcized heartes and vncircumcized fleshe, to be in my sanctuarie to pollute my house, when ye offer my bread, fat, and blood, and they haue broken my couenaunt because of all your abhominations:
• Ezek 44:9 : 9 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God: Of al the straungers that dwell among the children of Israel, no straunger vncircumcized in heart, nor vncircumcized in fleshe, shall enter into my sanctuarie.
• Acts 6:10 : 10 And they coulde not resiste the wisedome and the spirite by the whiche he spake.
• Acts 7:9 : 9 And the patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: and God was with hym,
• Acts 7:27 : 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust hym awaye, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a iudge ouer vs?
• Acts 7:39 : 39 To whom our fathers woulde not obey, but thrust it from them, and in their hearts turned backe againe into Egypt,
• Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision veryly auayleth, yf thou kepe the lawe: But yf thou be a breaker of the lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.
• Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Iewe, whiche is a Iewe outwarde. Neither is that circucision which is outwarde in the fleshe: 29 But he is a Iewe whiche is one inwardly, and the circumcisio of ye heart, which consisteth in the spirite, and not in the letter is circumcision whose prayse is not of men, but of God.
• Eph 4:30 : 30 And greeue not the holy spirite of God, by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redemption.
• Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirite, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the fleshe:
• Col 2:11 : 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with circumcisio made without handes, by puttyng of the body of sinnes of the fleshe, in the circumcision of Christe:
• Matt 23:31-33 : 31 And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes. 32 Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell?
• Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moyses, whom they forsoke saying, who made thee a ruler and a iudge? the same dyd God sende, to be a ruler, and a deliuerer, by the handes of the angell, whiche appeared to hym in the busshe.
• Isa 48:4 : 4 Howbeit I knowe that thou art obstinate, and that thy necke hath an iron sinowe, and that thy browe is of brasse.
• Ps 75:5 : 5 Set not vp your horne an high: and speake not with a stiffe necke.
• 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 And now be not ye stiffe necked lyke as were your fathers: but yeelde your selues vnto the Lord, and enter into his holy place which he hath sanctified for euer, and serue the Lord your God, and the fiercenesse of his wrath shall turne away from you.
• Neh 9:16 : 16 But they and our fathers were proud and hardnecked, so that they folowed not thy commaundementes:
• Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Beholde the time commeth (saith the Lord) that I will visite all them whose foreskinne is vncircumcised, and the circumcised, 26 The Egyptians, the Iewes, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the shauen Madianites that dwel in the wildernesse: for all the gentiles are all vncircumcised in the fleshe, but all the house of Israel are vncircumcised in the heart.
• Jer 17:23 : 23 Howbeit they obeyed me not, neither hearkened they vnto me: but were obstinate & stubburne, and neither obeyed me, nor receaued my correction.
• Ezek 2:4 : 4 For they are children of a harde face and stiffe heart, I do sende thee vnto them, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God.
• Exod 34:9 : 9 And sayd: If I haue founde grace in thy sight, O Lorde, then let my Lorde I pray thee go in the middest of vs, for it is a styfnecked people: and thou shalt haue mercy vpon our wickednes and our sinne, and shalt take vs for thine inheritaunce.
• Deut 30:6 : 6 And the Lorde thy God wyll circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seede, that thou mayest loue the Lorde thy God, with all thine heart, and all thy soule, that thou mayest lyue.
• Deut 9:6 : 6 Understand therfore that it is not for thy righteousnes sake, that the Lorde thy God doth geue thee this good lande to possesse it, seyng thou art a stifnecked people.
• Deut 9:13 : 13 Furthermore, the Lorde spake vnto me, saying: I haue seene this people, and beholde it is a stifnecked people.
• Zech 7:11-12 : 11 Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare: 12 Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them.