Acts 6:5

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And the sayenge pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Steuen, a man full of fayth and of the holy goost, and Philippe, and Procorus, and Nicanor, and Thimon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas the Proselite of Antioche.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἤρεσεν ὁ λόγος ἐνώπιον παντὸς τοῦ πλήθους: καὶ ἐξελέξαντο Στέφανον, ἄνδρα πλήρη πίστεως καὶ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου, καὶ Φίλιππον, καὶ Πρόχορον, καὶ Νικάνορα, καὶ Τίμωνα, καὶ Παρμενᾶν, καὶ Νικόλαον προσήλυτον Ἀντιοχέα:

Transliteration

And ēresen the logos enōpion all of the plēthous: and exelexanto Stephanon, andra plērē pisteōs and Pneumatos Hagiou, and Philippon, and Prochoron, and Nikanora, and Timōna, and Parmenan, and Nikolaon prosēlyton Antiochea:

Grammar Details

• *ēresen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person, singular - pleased/was pleasing
• *logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - word/statement/proposal
• *enōpion*: preposition + genitive - before/in the sight of
• *plēthous*: genitive, neuter, singular - multitude/crowd
• *exelexanto*: aorist, middle, indicative, 3rd person, plural - chose/selected
• *Stephanon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Stephen
• *andra*: accusative, masculine, singular - man
• *plērē*: accusative, masculine, singular, adjective - full
• *pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - faith
• *Pneumatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagiou*: genitive, neuter, singular, adjective - Holy
• *Philippon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Philip
• *Prochoron*: accusative, masculine, singular - Prochorus
• *Nikanora*: accusative, masculine, singular - Nicanor
• *Timōna*: accusative, masculine, singular - Timon
• *Parmenan*: accusative, masculine, singular - Parmenas
• *Nikolaon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Nicolas
• *prosēlyton*: accusative, masculine, singular - proselyte/convert
• *Antiochea*: accusative, masculine, singular - Antiochian/from Antioch

Word Meanings

• *ēresen*: pleased/was pleasing/was satisfactory
• *logos*: word/statement/proposal/matter
• *plēthous*: multitude/crowd/congregation
• *exelexanto*: chose/selected/elected
• *plērē*: full/filled/complete
• *pisteōs*: faith/trust/belief
• *prosēlyton*: proselyte/convert to Judaism

Referenced Verses

• Acts 11:24 : 24 For he was a good man, full of the holy goost and faith. And there was a greate multitude of people added vnto the LORDE.
• Acts 21:8 : 8 On the nexte daye we yt were with Paul, departed, and came vnto Cesarea, & entred in to the house of Philippe the Euangelist (which was one of the seue) and abode with him.
• Acts 6:3 : 3 Wherfore brethren, loke out amonge you seue men, that are of honeste reporte, and full of the holy goost and wyssdome, whom we maye appoynte to this nedefull busynes.
• Acts 6:8 : 8 Steuen full of faith and power, dyd wonders and greate tokens amonge the people.
• Acts 6:10 : 10 and they coulde not resiste the wyssdome and the sprete, out of the which he spake.
• Acts 7:1-8:2 : 1 Then sayde the hye prest: Is it eue so? 2 He sayde: Deare brethren and fathers, herken to, The God of glorye appeared vnto or father Abraha, whyle he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, 3 and sayde vnto him: Get ye out of thy coutre, and fro thy kynred, and come into a londe which I wil shewe ye. 4 The wente he out of the lande of the Caldees, and dwelt in Haran. And from thece, whan his father was deed, he brought him ouer in to this londe (where ye dwell now) 5 and gaue him no enheritauce therin, no not ye bredth of a fote: and promysed him, that he wolde geue it him to possesse, and to his sede after him, whan as yet he had no childe. 6 But thus sayde God vnto him: Thy sede shalbe a straunger in a straunge londe, and they shal make bonde men of them, and intreate the euell foure hundreth yeares: 7 and ye people whom they shal serue, wil I iudge, sayde God. And after that shal they go forth, and serue me in this place. 8 And he gaue him the couenaut of circucision. And he begat Isaac, and circucised him the eight daye. And Isaac begat Iacob and Iacob begat the twolue Patriarkes. 9 And the Patriarkes had indignacion at Ioseph, and solde hi in to Egipte. And God was with him, 10 and delyuered him out of all his troubles, and gaue him fauoure ad wyssdome i the sight of Pharao kynge of Egipte which made him prynce ouer Egipte and ouer all his house. 11 But there came a derth ouer all the londe of Egipte and Canaan, and a greate trouble, and oure fathers founde no sustenaunce. 12 But Iacob herde that there was corne in Egipte, and sent oure fathers out the first tyme. 13 And at the seconde tyme was Ioseph knowne of his brethren, and Iosephs kynred was made knowne vnto Pharao. 14 But Ioseph sent out, and caused his father and all his kynred to be broughte, eue thre score and fyftene soules. 15 And Iacob wente downe in to Egipte, and dyed, both he and oure fathers 16 and were brought ouer vnto Siche, and layed in the sepulcre, that Abraham boughte for money of the children of Hemor at Sichem. 17 Now wha the tyme of the promes drue nye (which God had sworne vnto Abraha) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte, 18 tyll there rose another kynge, which knewe not of Ioseph. 19 The same dealte suttely wt oure kynred, and intreated oure fathers euell and made them to cast out the yonge children, that they shulde not remayne alyue. 20 At the same tyme was Moses borne, and was a proper childe before God, and was norished thre monethes in his fathers house. 21 But whan he was cast out, Pharaos doughter toke him vp, and norished him vp for hir awne sonne. 22 And Moses was learned in all maner wyssdome of the Egipcians, and was mightie in dedes & wordes. 23 But whan he was fourtye yeare olde, it came in to his mynde to vyset his brethren the children of Israel. 24 And whan he sawe one of them suffre wroge, he helped him, and delyuered him, that had the harme done vnto him, and slewe the Egipcian. 25 But he thoughte that his brethren shulde haue vnderstonde, how that God by his hande shulde saue the, howbeit they vnderstode it not. 26 And on the nexte daye he shewed himself vnto them as they stroue together, and wolde haue set them at one agayne, and sayde: Syrs, ye are brethren, why hurte ye one another? 27 But he that dyd his neghboure wronge, thrust him awaye, and sayde: Who made the a ruler and iudge ouer vs? 28 Wilt thou slaye me also, as thou slewest the Egipcian yesterdaye? 29 But Moses fled at that sayenge, and was a straunger in the lande of Madian, where he begat two sonnes. 30 And after fourtye yeares, the angell of ye LORDE appeared vnto him vpon mount Sina, in a flamme of fyre in a busshe. 31 Wha Moses sawe it, he wondred at the sighte. But as he drue nye to beholde, ye voyce of ye LORDE came vnto him: 32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. Howbeit Moses trebled, and durst not beholde. 33 But ye LORDE sayde vnto hi: Put of thy shues from thy fete, for ye place where thou stondest, is an holy grounde. 34 I haue well sene the trouble of my people in Egipte, and haue herde their gronynge, and am come downe to delyuer them. And now come, I wil sende the in to Egipte. 35 This Moses, whom they refused, and sayde: Who made ye a ruler and iudge ouer vs? him had God sent to be a ruler & delyuerer by the hande of the angell, that appeared vnto him in the busshe. 36 The same broughte them out, and dyd wonders and tokens in Egipte, and in the reed see, and in ye wyldernesse fourtye yeares. 37 This is that Moses, which sayde vnto the children of Israel: A prophet shal the LORDE youre God rayse vp vnto you euen from amonge youre brethren, like vnto me. Him shal ye heare. 38 This is he, that was in the congregacion in the wyldernesse with the angell, which talked with him, vpo mount Sina, and with oure fathers. This man receaued the worde of life to geue vnto vs, 39 vnto whom oure fathers wolde not be obediet, but thrust him fro the, and in their hertes turned backe agayne in to Egipte, 40 and sayde vnto Aaron: Make vs goddes to go before vs, for we can not tell what is become of this Moses, yt broughte vs out of the lande of Egipte. 41 And they made a calfe at the same tyme, and offred sacrifice vnto the ymage, and reioysed in the workes of their awne handes. 42 But God turned himselfe, & gaue them vp, so that they worshipped the hooste of heaue, as it is wrytten in the boke of the prophetes: O ye house of Israel, gaue ye me sacrifices and catel those fortye yeares in the wyldernesse? 43 And ye toke vnto you ye tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of youre god Remphan, ymages which ye youre selues made to worshippe the. And I wil cast you out beyonde Babilon. 44 Oure fathers had the tabernacle of witnesse in ye wyldernesse, like as he appoynted them, whan he spake vnto Moses, that he shulde make it (acordinge to the patrone, yt he had sene.) 45 which oure fathers also receaued, and brought it with Iosue into the londe that the Heythe had in possession, whom God droue out before the face of oure fathers, vntyll the tyme of Dauid, 46 which founde fauoure with God, and desyred that he might fynde a tabernacle for the God of Iacob. 47 But Salomon buylte hi an house. 48 Howbeit ye Hyest of all dwelleth not in temples that are made with handes: As he sayeth by the prophete: 49 Heaue is my seate, and the earth is my fote stole. What house then wil ye buylde vnto me? sayeth the LORDE: Or which is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hande made all these thinges? 51 Ye styffnecked & of vncircumcysed hertes and eares, ye allwaye resiste the holy goost: Eue as yor fathers dyd, so do ye also. 52 Which of the prophetes haue not yor fathers persecuted? And they slewe the, which tolde before of the comynge of ye righteous, whose traytours and murthurers ye are now become. 53 Ye receaued the lawe by the mynistracion of angels, and haue not kepte it. 54 Whan they herde this, it wente thorow ye hertes of the, and they gnasshed vpo him with their tethe. 55 But he beynge full of the holy goost, loked vp towarde heauen, and sawe the glorye of God, and Iesus stodinge on the righte hande of God, 56 and sayde: Beholde, I se the heauens open, and the sonne of ma stondinge on ye righte honde of God. 57 But they cried out with a loude voyce, & stopped their eares, and rane violently vpon him all at once, 58 and thrust him out of the cite, and stoned him. And ye witnesses layed downe their clothes at the fete of a yonge man, which was called Saul. 59 And they stoned Steuen, which cryed, & sayde: LORDE Iesu, receaue my sprete. 60 And he kneled downe, & cried with a loude voyce: LORDE, laye not this synne to their charge. And wha he had thus spoken, he fell a slepe. 1 Saul had pleasure in his death. At ye same tyme there was a greate persecucion ouer the congregacion at Ierusale. And they were all scatered abrode in the regions of Iewrye & Samaria, excepte the Apostles. 2 As for Steuen, men yt feared God dressed him, and made greate lamentacion ouer him.
• Acts 8:5-9 : 5 The came Philippe in to a cite of Samaria, and preached Christ vnto them. 6 And the people gaue hede with one acorde vnto ye thinges that Philip spake, hearinge him, and seynge the tokes that he dyd. 7 For the vncleane spretes cryed loude, and departed out of many yt were possessed. And many that were sicke of the palsie and lame, were healed. 8 And there was greate ioye in the same cite. 9 But afore there was in ye same cite a certayne ma, called Simon, which vsed witche craft, and bewitched ye people of Samaria, sayenge, that he was a man which coulde do greate thinges. 10 And they all regarded him from the leest vnto ye greatest, & sayde: This is the power of God which is greate. 11 But they regarded him, because that of longe tyme he had bewitched them with his sorcery. 12 Howbeit whan they beleued Philips preachinge of ye kyngdome of God, and of the name of Iesu Christ, they were baptysed both me & weme. 13 Then Symon himself beleued also, and was baptysed, and cleued vnto Philippe. And wha he sawe the dedes and tokens that were done, he wondred. 14 Whan the Apostles which were at Ierusalem, herde, that Samaria had receaued ye worde of God, they sent vnto the Peter and Ihon. 15 Which, wha they were come, prayed for the, yt they might receaue the holy goost. 16 For as yet he was come vpon none of them but they were baptysed onely in the name of Christ Iesu. 17 Then layed they their hades on them, and they receaued the holy goost. 18 But whan Simon sawe, that by the layenge on of the Apostles hades ye holy goost was geuen, he offred the money, 19 and sayde: Geue me also this power, that, on whomsoeuer I put the hodes, he maye receaue the holy goost. 20 Howbeit Peter sayde vnto him: Perishe thou with thy money, because thou thinkest that ye gifte of God maye be optayned with money. 21 Thou shalt haue nether parte ner felashipe in this worde, for yi hert is not righte before God. 22 Repente therfore of this yi wickednesse, and praye vnto God, yf happly the thought of thy hert maye be forgeue ye. 23 For I se, yt thou art full of bytter gall, and wrapped in wt vnrighteousnesse. 24 Then answered Simon, & sayde: Praye ye vnto the LORDE for me, yt none of these thinges wherof ye haue spoken, come vpon me. 25 And they, wha they had testified and spoke the worde of the LORDE, turned agayne to Ierusalem, and preached the Gospell in many townes of the Samaritanes. 26 But the angell of the LORDE spake vnto Philippe, and sayde: Aryse, & go towarde the South, vnto the waye that goeth downe from Ierusalem vnto Gaza, which is deserte. 27 And he rose, and wente on. And beholde, a ma of the Morians lode (a chamberlayne and of auctorite with Candace ye quene of the londe of the Morians) which had the rule of all hir treasuries, ye same came to Ierusale to worshipe. 28 And returned home agayne, and satt vpon his charet, and red the prophet Esay. 29 The sprete sayde vnto Philippe: Go neare, and ioyne thy selfe to yonder charet. 30 The ranne Philippe vnto him, and herde him rede the prophet Esay, and sayde: Vnderstodest thou what thou readest? 31 He sayde: How can I, excepte some ma enfourme me?And he desyred Philippe, that he wolde come vp, and syt with him. 32 The tenoure of the scripture which he red, was this: He was led as a shepe to be slayne, and as a lambe voycelesse before his sherer, so opened he not his mouth. 33 In his humblenesse is his iudgment exalted. Who shal declare his generacion? for his life is taken awaye from the earth. 34 Then answered the chamberlayne vnto Philippe, and sayde: I praye the, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himselfe, or of some other man? 35 Philippe opened his mouth, and beganne at this scripture, and preached him the Gospell of Iesus. 36 And as they wete on their waye, they came to a water. And the chamberlayne sayde: Beholde, here is water, what hyndereth me to be baptysed? 37 Philippe sayde: Yf thou beleue from thy whole herte, thou mayest. He answered, and sayde: I beleue, that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God. 38 And he commaunded to holde styll the charet, and they wente downe in to the water, both Philippe and the chamberlayne. And he baptysed him. 39 But whan they were come vp out of the water, the sprete of the LORDE toke Philippe awaye. And the Chamberlayne sawe him nomore. But he wente on his waye reioysinge. 40 As for Philippe, he was founde at Assdod, and walked aboute, and preached the Gospell vnto all the cities, tyll he came to Cesarea.
• Acts 13:1 : 1 There were at Antioche in the congregacion, prophetes and teachers, as Barnabas, and Simon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyren, and Manahen Herodes the Tetrachas norsfelowe, and Saul.
• Acts 15:22 : 22 And the Apostles and Elders with the whole congregacion thoughte it good, to chose out men of them, and to sende them vnto Antioche with Paul and Barnabas, namely Iudas, whose syrname was Barsabas, and Sylas (which were chefe men amoge the brethre)
• Rev 2:6 : 6 But this thou hast because thou hatest ye dedes of the Nicolaitans, which dedes I also hate.
• Rev 2:15 : 15 Euen so hast thou them that mayntayne ye doctryne of the Nicolaytans, which thinge I hate.
• Acts 11:19 : 19 They that were scatred abrode thorow ye trouble yt rose aboute Steuen, walked on euerysyde vntyll Phenices, and Cipers, and Antioche, and spake the worde vnto no man but onely vnto ye Iewes.
• Gen 41:37 : 37 The sayenge pleased Pharao well and all his seruautes.
• Prov 15:1 : 1 A softe aswere putteth downe displeasure, but frowarde wordes prouoke vnto anger.
• Prov 15:23 : 23 O how ioyfull a thinge is it, a man to geue a conuenient answere? O how pleasaunt is a worde spoken in due season?
• Prov 25:11-12 : 11 A worde spoken in due season, is like apples of golde in a syluer dyshe. 12 The correccion of the wyse is to an obedient eare, a golden cheyne and a Iewel of golde.
• Mic 3:8 : 8 As for me, I am full of strength, & of ye sprete of ye LORDE, full of iudgment & boldnesse: to shewe the house of Iacob their wickednesse, & the house of Israel their synne.
• Matt 23:15 : 15 Wo vnto you Scrybes and Pharises, ye ypocrytes, which compasse see and lode to make one Proselyte: and whan he is become one, ye make of him a childe of hell, two folde more then ye youre selues are.