Acts 7:38

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

This is he that was in ye congregacion in the wyldernes with the angell which spake to him in ye moute Syna and with oure fathers. This man receaved the worde of lyfe to geve vnto vs

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ γενόμενος ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, μετὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου τοῦ λαλοῦντος αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σινᾶ, καὶ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν: ὃς ἐδέξατο λόγια ζῶντα δοῦναι ἡμῖν:

Transliteration

This estin the genomenos en the ekklēsia en the erēmō, meta the angelou the lalountos to him en the orei Sina, kai of the paterōn of us: who edexato logia zōnta dounai to us:

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *genomenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine singular - having been
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *ekklēsia*: dative feminine singular - assembly/congregation
• *erēmō*: dative feminine singular - wilderness/desert
• *meta*: preposition + genitive - with
• *angelou*: genitive masculine singular - angel/messenger
• *lalountos*: present active participle, genitive masculine singular - speaking
• *orei*: dative neuter singular - mountain
• *Sina*: genitive - Sinai
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *paterōn*: genitive masculine plural - fathers/ancestors
• *edexato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - received
• *logia*: accusative neuter plural - oracles/sayings
• *zōnta*: present active participle, accusative neuter plural - living
• *dounai*: aorist active infinitive - to give

Word Meanings

• *genomenos*: having been/come to be/was
• *ekklēsia*: assembly/congregation/gathering
• *erēmō*: wilderness/desert/desolate place
• *angelou*: angel/messenger
• *lalountos*: speaking/talking/addressing
• *orei*: mountain/mount
• *paterōn*: fathers/ancestors/forefathers
• *edexato*: received/accepted/took
• *logia*: oracles/sayings/divine utterances
• *zōnta*: living/alive/active

Referenced Verses

• Rom 3:2 : 2 Surely very moche. Fyrst vnto them was committed the worde of God
• Heb 5:12 : 12 For when as cocerninge ye tyme ye ought to be teachers yet have ye nede agayne that we teache you the fyrst principles of the worde of god: and are become soche as have nede of mylke and not of stronge meate:
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 Yf eny man speake let him talke as though he spake ye wordes of God. If eny man minister let him do it as of ye abilitie which god ministreth vnto him. That god in all thinges maye be glorified thorow Iesus Christ to whom be prayse and dominion for ever and whyll the worlde stondeth. Amen.
• Acts 7:53 : 53 And ye also have receaved a lawe by the ordinaunce of angels and have not kept it.
• Deut 32:46-47 : 46 then he sayed vnto them. Sett youre hertes vnto all the wordes whiche I testifye vnto you this daye: that ye commaunde them vnto youre childern, to obserue and doo all the wordes off thys lawe. 47 For it is not a vayne worde vnto you: but it is youre lyfe, and thorow thys worde ye shall prolonge youre dayes in the lond whother ye goo ouer Iordayne to conquere it.
• Deut 33:4 : 4 Moses gaue us a lawe which is the enheritaunce of the cogregacion of Iacob.
• John 1:17 : 17 For the lawe was geven by Moses but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ.
• John 6:63 : 63 It is the sprete that quyckeneth the flesshe proffeteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake vnto you are sprete and lyfe.
• Acts 7:30 : 30 And when.xl. yeares were expired ther appered to him in the wyldernes of mounte Syna an angell of the Lorde in a flamme of fyre in a busshe.
• Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses whom they forsoke sayinge: who made the a ruelar and a iudge: the same God sent bothe a ruler and delyverer by ye hondes of the angell which appered to him in the busshe.
• Rom 9:4 : 4 which are the Israelites. To whom pertayneth the adopcion and the glorie and the covenauntes and the law that was geven and the service of God and the promyses:
• Rom 10:6-9 : 6 But ye rightewesnes which cometh of fayth speaketh on this wyse. Saye not in thyne hert who shall ascende into heven? (that is nothinge els then to fetch Christ doune) 7 Other who shall descende into the depe? (that is nothinge els but to fetch vp Christ from deeth) 8 But what sayth the scripture? The worde is nye the even in thy mouth and in thyn herte. This worde is the worde of fayth which we preache. 9 For yf thou shalt knowledge wt thy mouth that Iesus is the LORde and shalt beleve with thyn hert that God raysed him up from deeth thou shalt be safe. 10 For the belefe of the hert iustifieth: and to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe.
• Gal 3:19 : 19 Wherfore then serveth ye lawe? The lawe was added because of transgression (tyll the seed cam to which ye promes was made) and it was ordeyned by angels in ye honde of a mediator.
• Heb 2:2 : 2 For yf the worde which was spoke by angels was stedfast: so yt every trasgressio and disobediece receaved a iust recopece to rewarde:
• Heb 4:12 : 12 For the worde of god is quycke and myghty in operacion and sharper then eny two edged swearde: and entreth through even vnto the dividynge asonder of the soule and the sprete and of the ioyntes and the mary: and iudgeth the thoughtes and the intentes of the herte:
• Exod 19:3-9 : 3 And Moses went vpp vnto God. And the Lorde called to him out of the mountayne saynge: thus saye vnto the housse of Iacob and tell the childern of Israel, 4 ye haue sene what I dyd vnto the Egiptians and how I toke you vpp apon Egles wynges, and haue broughte you vnto my selfe. 5 Now therfore yf ye will heare my voyce and kepe myne appoyntment: ye shall be myne awne aboue all nations, for all the erth is myne. 6 Ye shall be vnto me a kyngdome of preastes and and holie people: these are the wordes which thou shalt saye vnto the childern of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of Israel, and layde before them all these wordes which the Lorde had commaunded him. 8 And the people answered all together and sayde: All that the Lorde hath sayde, we will doo. And Moses broughte the wordes of the people vnto the Lorde. 9 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Loo, I will come vnto the in a thicke clowde, that the people maye heare when I talke with the and also beleue the for euer. And Moses shewed the wordes of the people vnto the Lorde 10 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Go vnto the people and sanctifie them to daye and tomorow, and let them wash their clothes: 11 that they maye be redie agaynst the thyrde daye. For the thyrde daye the Lorde will come doune in the sighte of all the people vpon mounte Sinai. 12 And sett markes rounde aboute the people and saye: beware that ye go not vp in to the mounte and that ye twych not the bordres of it, for whosoeuer twicheth the mounte, shall surely dye 13 There shall not an hande twych it, but that he shall ether be stoned or els shot thorow: whether it be beest or man, it shall not lyue. when the horne bloweth: than let the come vp in to the mounten 14 And Moses went doune from the mounte vnto the people and sanctifyed them, ad they wasshed their clothes: 15 And he sayde vnto the people: be redie agenst the thirde daye, and se that ye come not at youre wiues. 16 And the thirde daye in the mornynge there was thunder, and lightenynge and a thicke clowde apo the mounte, ad the voyce of the horne waxed exceadynge lowde, and all the people that was in the hoste was afrayde. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the tetes to mete with God. and they stode vnder the hyll.
• Exod 20:19-20 : 19 ad saide vnto Moses: talke thou with vs and we wil heare: but let not god talke with vs, lest we dye. 20 And Moses sayde vnto the people feare not, for God is come to proue you, and that his feare maye be amonge you that ye synne not.
• Exod 21:1-9 : 1 These are the lawes which thou shalt set before the. 2 Yf thou bye a servaunte that is an hebrue, sixte yeres he shall serue, and the seuenth he shall goo out fre paynge nothinge. 3 Yf he came alone, he shall goo out alone: Yf he came maried, his wife shall go out with hi. 4 And yf his master haue geuen him a wife and she haue borne him sonnes or doughters: then the wife and hir childern shalbe hir masters ad he shall goo out alone. 5 But and yf the servaunte saye I loue my master and my wife and my children, I will not goo out fre. 6 Then let his master bringe him vnto the Goddes ad set him to the doore or the dorepost, ad bore his eare thorow with a naule, ad let him be his servaunte for euer. 7 Yf a man sell his doughter to be a servaunte: she shall not goo out as the men servauntes doo. 8 Yf she please not hir master, so that he hath geuen her to no man to wife, then shal he let hir goo fre: to sell her vnto a straunge nacion shal he haue no power, because he despised her. 9 Yf he haue promysed her vnto his sonne to wife, he shal deale with her as men do with their doughters. 10 Yf he take him another wife, yet hir fode, rayment and dutie off mariage shall he not mynisshe. 11 Yf he do not these thre vnto her, then shal she goo out fre and paye no money.
• Num 16:3-9 : 3 and they gathered the selues together agenst Moses and Aaron and sayed vnto them: ye haue done ynough. For all the multitude are holy euery one of them and the Lorde is amonge them. Why therfore heue ye youre selues vpp aboue the congregacion of the Lorde. 4 When Moses herde it he fell apon his face 5 and spake vnto Corah and vnto all his companye sayenge: tomorow the Lorde will shewe who is his and who is holy and will take them vnto him and whom so euer he hath chosen he will cause to come to him. 6 This doo: take fyrepannes thou Corah and all the companye 7 and do fyre therein ad put ces thereto before the Lorde tomorowe: And then whom soeuer the Lorde doeth chose the same is holy. Ye make ynough to doo ye childern of Leui. 8 And Moses sayed vnto Corah: heare ye childern of leui 9 Semeth it but a small thynge vnto you that ye God of Israel hath separated you fro the multitude of Israel to brynge you to him to doo the seruyce of the dwellynge place of the Lorde and to stonde before the people to minystre vnto them? 10 he hath taken the to him and all thi brethern the sonnes of leui with the and ye seke the office of ye preast also. 11 For which cause both thou and all thi companye are gathered together agenst the Lorde: for what is Aaron that ye shulde murmure agenst him. 12 And Moses sent to call Dathan ad Abiram the sonnes of Eliab and they answered: we will not come. 13 Semeth it a small thynge vnto the that thou hast broughte us out of a londe that floweth with mylke and honye to kyll us in ye wildernesse. But that thou shuldest reygne ouer us also? 14 More ouer thou hast broughte us vnto no londe that floweth with mylke and honye nether hast geuen us possessions of feldes or of vynes. Ether wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men? we wyll not come. 15 And Moses waxed very angrye and sayed vnto the Lorde: Turne not vnto their offerynges. I haue not taken so moch as an asse from them nether haue vexed any of them. 16 Then Moses sayed vnto Corah: Be thou ad all thy companye before the Lorde: both thou they and Aaron to morowe. 17 And take euery man his censer and put cens in them and come before the Lorde euery man with hys censer: two hundred and fyftie censers and Aaron with his censer. 18 And they toke euery man his censer and put fyre in them and layed cens thereon and stode in the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse and Moses and Aaron also. 19 And Corah gathered all the congregacyon agenst them vnto the dore of the tabernacle of witnesse. And the glorye of the Lorde appered vnto all the congregacion. 20 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge: 21 separate youre selues from this congregacion that I maye consume them at once. 22 And they fell apon their faces and sayed: O most myghtie God of the spirites of all fleshe one ma hath synned and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude? 23 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge: 24 speake vnto the congregacion and saye: Gett you awaye from aboute the dwellynge of Corah Dathan and Abiram. 25 And Moses rose vpp and went vnto Dathan and Abira and the elders of Israel folowed him. 26 And he spake vnto the congregacyon sayenge: departe from the tentes of these weked men and twyche nothinge of theres: lest ye peryshe in all there synnes. 27 And they gate them from the dwellynge of Corah Dathan and Abiram on euery syde. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stode in ye dore of there tetes with their wyues their sonnes and their childern. 28 And Moses sayed: Hereby ye shall knowe that the Lorde hath sent me to doo all these workes and that I haue not done them of myne awne mynde: 29 Yf these men dye the comon deth of all men or yf they be visyted after the visitacion of all men then the Lorde hath not sent me. 30 But and yf the Lorde make a newe thinge and the erth open hir mouthe and swalowe them and all that pertayne vnto them so that they goo doune quycke in to hell: then ye shall vnderstod that these me haue rayled apon the Lorde. 31 And as soone as he had made an ende of speakynge all these wordes the grounde cloue asunder that was vnder the 32 and ye erth opened hir mouthe and swalowed them and their housses and all the me that were with Corah and all their goodes. 33 And they and all that pertayned vnto them went doune alyue vnto hell and the erthe closed apon them and they peryshed from amonge the congregacyon. 34 And all Israel that were aboute them fledde at the crye of them. For they sayed: The erthe myghte happelye swalowe vs also. 35 And there came oute a fyre from the Lorde and consumed the two hundred and fyftye men that offred cens.
• Num 16:41-42 : 41 And on the morowe all the multitude of the childern of Israell murmured agenste Moses and Aaron sayenge: ye haue kylled the people of the Lorde. 42 And when the multitude was gathered agenste Moses and Aaron they loked towarde the tabernacle of witnesse. And beholde the cloude had couered it and the glorye of the Lorde appeared.
• Deut 5:27-31 : 27 Goo thou ad heare all that the Lorde oure God sayeth, and tell thou vnto us all that the Lorde oure God sayeth vnto the, and we will heare it and doo it. 28 And the Lorde herde the voyce of youre wordes when ye spake vnto me, and he sayed vnto me: I haue herde the voyce of the wordes of this people which they haue spoke vnto the they haue well sayed all that they haue sayed. 29 Oh that they had soche an herte with them to feare me ad kepe all my commaundmentes alwaye, that it myghte goo well with them and with their childern for euer. 30 Goo ad saye vnto them: gett you in to youre tentes agayne, 31 but stonde thou here before me and I will tell the all the commaundmentes, ordinaunces ad lawes which thou shalt teache the, that they may doo them in the londe whiche I geue them to possesse.
• Deut 6:1-3 : 1 These are the commaundmentes, ordinaunces and lawes which the Lorde youre God commaunded to teach you, that ye might doo them in the londe whother ye goo to possesse it: 2 that thou mightest feare the Lorde thy God, to kepe all his ordinaunces and his commaundmentes which I commaunde the, both thou and thy sonne and thy sonnes sonne all dayes off thy lyfe, that thy dayes maye be prolonged. 3 Heare therfore Israel and take hede that thou doo thereafter, that it maye goo well with the and that ye maye encrease myghtely: eue as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promysed the, a lode that floweth with mylk ad hony
• Deut 30:19-20 : 19 I call to recorde this daye vnto you, heauen and erth, that I haue sett before you lyfe and deeth, blessynge and cursynge: but chose lyfe, that thou and thi seed maye lyue, 20 in that thou louest the Lorde thi God herkenest vnto his voyce and cleauest vnto him. For he is thi life and the lengthe of thi dayes, that thou mayst dwell vppon the erth which the Lorde sware vnto thi fathers: Abraham, Isaac and Iacob to geue them.