Acts 13:18

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

and aboute the tyme of.xl. yeares suffred he their maners in the wyldernes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.

Transliteration

And for about tessarakontaetē chronon etropophōrēsen them in the erēmō.

Grammar Details

• *hōs*: adverb - about/approximately
• *tessarakontaetē*: accusative, masculine, singular - forty-year
• *chronon*: accusative, masculine, singular - time/period
• *etropophōrēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - bore with their manners
• *autous*: accusative, masculine, plural - them
• *en*: preposition - in
• *erēmō*: dative, feminine, singular - wilderness

Word Meanings

• *hōs*: about/approximately/as
• *tessarakontaetē*: forty-year
• *chronon*: time/period
• *etropophōrēsen*: bore with their manners/endured their conduct/cared for them like a nurse
• *erēmō*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited region

Referenced Verses

• Acts 7:36 : 36 And the same brought them out shewynge wonders and signes in Egypte and in the reed see and in the wyldernes.xl. yeares.
• Deut 9:7 : 7 Remebre ad forget not how thou prouokedest the Lorde thi god in the wildernesse: for sens the daye that thou camest out of the lond of Egipte vntyll ye came vnto this place, ye haue rebelled agenst the Lorde.
• Deut 9:21-24 : 21 And I toke youre synne, the calfe which ye had made ad burnt him with fire ad stampe him and grounde him a good, eue vnto smal dust. And I cast the dust thereof in to the broke that descended out of the mount. 22 Also at Thabeera and at Masa and at the sepulchres of lust ye angred the Lorde, y 23 ad when the Lorde sent you from Cades Bernea sayenge: goo vpp and conquere the lond whiche I haue geuen you, ye disobeyed the mouth of the Lorde youre God, and nether beleued hi nor herkened vnto his voyce. 24 Thus ye haue bene disobediet vnto the Lord, sence the daye that I knew you.
• Acts 7:39-43 : 39 to who oure fathers wolde not obeye but cast it from them and in their hertes turned backe agayne into Egypte 40 sayinge vnto Aaron: Make vs goddes to goo before vs. For this Moses that brought vs out of the londe of Egypte we wote not what is become of him. 41 And they made a calfe in those dayes and offered sacrifice vnto the ymage and reioysed in the workes of their awne hondes. 42 Then God turned him selfe and gave them vp that they shuld worship the starres of the skye as it is written in the boke of the prophetes. O ye of ye housse of Israel gave ye to me sacrefices and meate offerynges by the space of xl. yeares in the wildernes? 43 And ye toke vnto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the starre of youre god Remphan figures which ye made to worshippe them. And I will translate you beyonde Babylon.
• 1 Cor 10:1-9 : 1 Brethren I wolde not that ye shuld be ignoraunt of this how yt oure fathers were all vnder a cloude and all passed thorow the see 2 and were all baptised vnder Moses in the cloude and in the see: 3 and dyd all eate of one spirituall meate 4 and did all drincke of one maner of spirituall drincke. And they dranke of that spretuall rocke that folowed them which rocke was Christ. 5 But in many of them had god no delite. For they were overthrowen in the wildernes. 6 These are ensamples to vs that we shuld not lust after evyll thinges as they lusted 7 Nether be ye worshippers of Images as were some of them accordynge as it is written: The people sate doune to eate and drynke and rose vp agayne to playe. 8 Nether let vs comit fornicacion as some of them committed fornicacion and were destroyed in one daye.xxiii. thousande. 9 Nether let vs tempte Christ as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpentes. 10 Nether murmure ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed of ye destroyer
• Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Wherfore as the holy goost sayth: to daye if ye shall heare his voyc 8 harden not youre hertes after the rebellyon in the daye of temptacion in the wildernes 9 where youre fathers tempted me proved me and sawe my workes xl. yeare longe. 10 Wherfore I was greved wt ye generacio and sayde. They erre ever in their hertes: they verely have not knowe my wayes
• Heb 3:16-19 : 16 For some whe they hearde rebelled: howbe it not all yt ca out of Egypt vnder Moses. 17 But with who was he despleased.xl. yeares? Was he not displeased with them that synned: whose carkases were overthorwen in the desert? 18 To whom sware he that they shuld not enter into his rest: but vnto them that beleved not? 19 And we se that they coulde not enter in because of vnbeleve.
• Exod 16:2 : 2 And the hole multitude of the childern of Israel murmured agaynst Moses ad Aaro in the wildernesse
• Exod 16:35 : 35 And the childern of Israel ate man.xl. yere vntill they came vnto a lande inhahited. And so they ate Man, euen vntill they came vnto the bordres of the lade of Canaan,
• Num 14:22 : 22 For of all those me whiche haue sene my glorye and my miracles which I dyd in Egipte and in ye wildernesse and yet haue tempted me now this.x. tymes and haue not herkened vnto my voyce
• Num 14:33-34 : 33 And youre childern shall wadre in this wildernesse.xl. yeres and suffre for youre whoredome vntill your carkasses be wasted in the wildernesse 34 after the numbre of the dayes in which ye serched out yt londe.xl. dayes and euery daye a yere: so that they shall bere your vnrightuousnes.xl. yere and ye shall fele my vengeaunce
• Deut 1:31 : 31 ad in the wildernesse: as thou hast sene how that the Lorde thy God bare the as a man shulde beare his sonne, thorow out all the waye which ye haue gone, vntill ye came vnto this place.