Acts 11:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀκούσαντες δὲ ταῦτα, ἡσύχασαν, καὶ ἐδόξαζον τὸν Θεόν, λέγοντες, Ἄρα γε καὶ τοῖς Ἔθνεσιν ὁ Θεὸς τὴν μετάνοιαν ἔδωκεν εἰς ζωήν.

Transliteration

Akousantes de tauta, hēsychasan, and edoxazon ton Theon, legontes, Ara ge also to the Ethnesin ho Theos tēn metanoian edōken for zōēn.

Grammar Details

• *Akousantes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having heard
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but
• *tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative neuter plural - these things
• *hēsychasan*: aorist active indicative 3rd person plural - they became silent
• *edoxazon*: imperfect active indicative 3rd person plural - they were glorifying
• *ton Theon*: accusative masculine singular with article - God
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - saying
• *Ara ge*: inferential particles - then indeed
• *kai*: adverb - also/even
• *tois Ethnesin*: dative neuter plural with article - to the Gentiles/nations
• *ho Theos*: nominative masculine singular with article - God
• *tēn metanoian*: accusative feminine singular with article - repentance
• *edōken*: aorist active indicative 3rd person singular - has given
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - for/unto
• *zōēn*: accusative feminine singular - life

Word Meanings

• *Akousantes*: having heard/when they heard
• *hēsychasan*: became silent/fell quiet/ceased arguing
• *edoxazon*: were glorifying/were praising
• *Ara ge*: then indeed/so then
• *Ethnesin*: Gentiles/nations/non-Jewish peoples
• *metanoian*: repentance/change of mind
• *edōken*: has given/granted
• *zōēn*: life/eternal life

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,
• Rom 10:12-13 : 12 for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all `is' rich to all those calling upon Him, 13 for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'
• Acts 5:31 : 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;
• Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 21:20 : 20 and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,
• Acts 22:21-22 : 21 and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.' 22 And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'
• Acts 26:17-20 : 17 delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me. 19 `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
• Rom 3:29-30 : 29 The God of Jews only `is He', and not also of nations? 30 yes, also of nations; since one `is' God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.
• Rom 9:30 : 30 What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith,
• Acts 11:1 : 1 And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,
• Acts 13:47-48 : 47 for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations -- for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.' 48 And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe -- as many as were appointed to life age-during;
• Acts 14:27 : 27 and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;
• Acts 15:3 : 3 they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.
• Lev 10:19-20 : 19 And Aaron speaketh unto Moses, `Lo, to-day they have brought near their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and `things' like these meet me, yet I have eaten a sin-offering to-day; is it good in the eyes of Jehovah?' 20 And Moses hearkeneth, and it is good in his eyes.
• Josh 22:30 : 30 And Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the company, and the heads of the thousands of Israel, who `are' with him, hear the words which the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh have spoken, and it is good in their eyes.
• Isa 60:21 : 21 And thy people `are' all of them righteous, To the age they possess the earth, A branch of My planting, A work of My hands, to be beautified.
• Isa 61:3 : 3 To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
• Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God. 19 For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth. 20 A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.
• Ezek 36:26 : 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
• Acts 3:26 : 26 to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'
• Rom 15:9-9 : 9 and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,' 10 and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;' 11 and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;' 12 and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations -- upon him shall nations hope;' 13 and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit. 14 And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish; 15 and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God, 16 for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
• Gal 1:24 : 24 and they were glorifying God in me.
• Gal 3:26-27 : 26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, 27 for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;
• Eph 2:11-18 : 11 Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands, 12 that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; 13 and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ, 14 for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down, 15 the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace, 16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it, 17 and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh, 18 because through him we have the access -- we both -- in one Spirit unto the Father.
• Eph 3:5-8 : 5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit -- 6 that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, 7 of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
• 2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, 26 and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.
• Jas 1:16-17 : 16 Be not led astray, my brethren beloved; 17 every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;