Acts 19:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and Paul having laid on them `his' hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐπιθέντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ Παύλου τὰς χεῖρας, ἦλθε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον ἐπʼ αὐτούς· ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις, καὶ προεφήτευον.

Transliteration

And epithentos autois tou Paulou tas cheiras, elthe the Pneuma to Hagion ep' autous; elaloun te glossais, and proephēteuon.

Grammar Details

• *epithentos*: aorist participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having laid
• *autois*: dative, masculine, plural - on them
• *tou Paulou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Paul
• *tas cheiras*: accusative, feminine, plural - the hands
• *elthe*: aorist, 3rd singular, indicative - came
• *Pneuma to Hagion*: nominative, neuter, singular - the Holy Spirit
• *ep'*: preposition + accusative - upon
• *autous*: accusative, masculine, plural - them
• *elaloun*: imperfect, 3rd plural, indicative - they were speaking
• *te*: connective particle - and/both
• *glossais*: dative, feminine, plural - with tongues
• *proephēteuon*: imperfect, 3rd plural, indicative - they were prophesying

Word Meanings

• *epithentos*: having laid/placed
• *cheiras*: hands
• *elthe*: came/went
• *Pneuma to Hagion*: the Holy Spirit/Divine breath
• *elaloun*: they were speaking/talking
• *glossais*: with tongues/languages
• *proephēteuon*: they were prophesying/speaking forth

Referenced Verses

• Acts 2:4 : 4 and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
• Acts 6:6 : 6 whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them `their' hands.
• Mark 16:17 : 17 `And signs shall accompany those believing these things; in my name demons they shall cast out; with new tongues they shall speak;
• Acts 8:17-19 : 17 then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money, 19 saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'
• Acts 9:17 : 17 And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him `his' hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.'
• Acts 10:45-46 : 45 and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out, 46 for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.
• Acts 13:1-2 : 1 And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul; 2 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,'
• 1 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; 9 and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit; 10 and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues: 11 and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.
• 1 Cor 12:28-30 : 28 And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues; 29 `are' all apostles? `are' all prophets? `are' all teachers? `are' all powers? 30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
• 1 Cor 14:1-9 : 1 Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, 2 for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets; 3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; 4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification. 6 And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching? 7 yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped? 8 for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle? 9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning, 11 if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner; 12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound; 13 wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret; 14 for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding; 16 since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known? 17 for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up! 18 I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking -- 19 but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue. 20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect; 21 in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;' 22 so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing, 23 If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 24 and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, 25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
• 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;
• 2 Tim 1:6 : 6 For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,