Acts 13:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λειτουργούντων δὲ αὐτῶν τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ νηστευόντων, εἶπεν τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον, Ἀφορίσατε δή μοι τόν Βαρνάβαν καὶ τὸν Σαῦλον εἰς τὸ ἔργον ὃ προσκέκλημαι αὐτούς.

Transliteration

Leitourgountōn de autōn to the Kyriō, and nēsteuontōn, eipen the Pneuma the Hagion, Aphorisate dē to me ton Barnaban and ton Saulon for the ergon which proskeklēmai them.

Grammar Details

• *Leitourgountōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - ministering/serving [in worship]
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• *autōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of them
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - to [the] Lord
• *nēsteuontōn*: present active participle, genitive, masculine, plural - fasting
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *Pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagion*: nominative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *Aphorisate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - separate/set apart
• *dē*: particle - indeed/now/certainly
• *ton*: accusative, masculine, singular - the
• *Barnaban*: accusative, masculine, singular - proper name
• *Saulon*: accusative, masculine, singular - proper name
• *ergon*: accusative, neuter, singular - work
• *proskeklēmai*: perfect middle/passive indicative, 1st person singular - I have called

Word Meanings

• *Leitourgountōn*: ministering/serving [in religious service]/performing public service
• *Kyriō*: Lord/master
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *Hagion*: Holy/set apart
• *Aphorisate*: separate/set apart/divide
• *dē*: indeed/now/certainly/therefore
• *ergon*: work/deed/task/occupation
• *proskeklēmai*: have called/summoned/invited

Referenced Verses

• Acts 9:15 : 15 And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;
• Gal 1:15 : 15 and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --
• 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,
• 1 Cor 12:11 : 11 and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.
• Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --
• Acts 14:26 : 26 and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;
• Acts 8:29 : 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, `Go near, and be joined to this chariot;'
• Acts 22:21 : 21 and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'
• Acts 16:6-7 : 6 and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, 7 having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,
• Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
• Acts 10:19 : 19 And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, `Lo, three men do seek thee;
• Acts 10:30 : 30 And Cornelius said, `Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and `at' the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
• Acts 13:3 : 3 then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent `them' away.
• Num 8:11-14 : 11 and Aaron hath waved the Levites -- a wave-offering before Jehovah, from the sons of Israel, and they have been -- for doing the service of Jehovah. 12 `And the Levites lay their hands on the head of the bullocks, and make thou the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt-offering to Jehovah, to atone for the Levites, 13 and thou hast caused the Levites to stand before Aaron, and before his sons, and hast waved them -- a wave-offering to Jehovah; 14 and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;
• Deut 10:8 : 8 `At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day,
• 1 Sam 2:11 : 11 And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, `in' the presence of Eli the priest;
• 1 Chr 16:4 : 4 And he putteth before the ark of Jehovah, of the Levites, ministers, even to make mention of, and to thank, and to give praise to Jehovah, God of Israel,
• 1 Chr 16:37-43 : 37 And he leaveth there before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, for Asaph and for his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, according to the matter of a day in its day, 38 both Obed-Edom and their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah for gatekeepers, 39 and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, in a high place that `is' in Gibeon, 40 to cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah, on the altar of burnt-offering continually, morning and evening, and for all that is written in the law of Jehovah, that He charged on Israel. 41 And with them `are' Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen, who were defined by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, for to the age `is' His kindness, 42 and with them -- Heman and Jeduthun -- `are' trumpets and cymbals for those sounding, and instruments of the song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun `are' at the gate. 43 And all the people go, each to his house, and David turneth round to bless his house.
• Dan 9:3 : 3 and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek `by' prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
• Matt 6:16 : 16 `And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men fasting; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
• Matt 9:14-15 : 14 Then come to him do the disciples of John, saying, `Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?' 15 And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.
• Matt 9:38 : 38 beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'
• Luke 2:37 : 37 and she `is' a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
• Luke 10:1 : 1 And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,
• Acts 6:4 : 4 and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'
• Rom 10:15 : 15 and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'
• Rom 15:16 : 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.
• 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
• Gal 2:8-9 : 8 for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations, 9 and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go',
• Eph 3:7 : 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;
• Col 4:17 : 17 and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'
• 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
• 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
• 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
• 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,
• 2 Tim 4:11 : 11 Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration;
• Heb 5:4 : 4 and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron: