Acts 7:51

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Σκληροτράχηλοι καὶ ἀπερίτμητοι τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ὠσίν, ὑμεῖς ἀεὶ τῷ Πνεύματι τῷ Ἁγίῳ ἀντιπίπτετε: ὡς οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, καὶ ὑμεῖς.

Transliteration

Sklērotrachēloi and aperitmētoi in-the kardia and in-the ōsin, you aei to-the Pneumati to-the Hagiō antipiptete: as the pateres of-you, also you.

Grammar Details

• *Sklērotrachēloi*: vocative, masculine, plural - stiff-necked ones
• *aperitmētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - uncircumcised
• *kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
• *ōsin*: dative, neuter, plural - ears
• *aei*: adverb - always/continually
• *Pneumati*: dative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagiō*: dative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *antipiptete*: present active indicative, 2nd plural - resist/oppose
• *pateres*: nominative, masculine, plural - fathers/ancestors

Word Meanings

• *Sklērotrachēloi*: stiff-necked/stubborn/obstinate
• *aperitmētoi*: uncircumcised/unclean/unreceptive
• *kardia*: heart/mind/inner self
• *aei*: always/continually/perpetually
• *Pneumati*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *antipiptete*: resist/oppose/fight against

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:41 : 41 also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies -- or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, --
• Deut 10:16 : 16 and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
• Exod 32:9 : 9 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it `is' a stiff-necked people;
• Exod 33:5 : 5 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto the sons of Israel, Ye `are' a stiff-necked people; one moment -- I come up into thy midst, and have consumed thee; and now, put down thine ornaments from off thee, and I know what I do to thee;'
• Exod 33:3 : 3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou `art' a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'
• Isa 63:10 : 10 And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.
• Jer 4:4 : 4 Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
• Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear `is' uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
• Deut 31:27 : 27 for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.
• Neh 9:30 : 30 `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,
• Ps 78:8 : 8 And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God `is' its spirit.
• Ezek 44:7 : 7 In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,
• Ezek 44:9 : 9 `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who `is' in the midst of the sons of Israel,
• Acts 6:10 : 10 and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;
• Acts 7:9 : 9 and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,
• Acts 7:27 : 27 and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?
• Acts 7:39 : 39 to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
• Rom 2:25 : 25 For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.
• Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh; 29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
• Eph 4:30 : 30 and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.
• Phil 3:3 : 3 for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,
• Col 2:11 : 11 in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
• Matt 23:31-33 : 31 So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; 32 and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
• Acts 7:35 : 35 `This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;
• Isa 48:4 : 4 From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,
• Ps 75:5 : 5 Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)
• 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 `Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;
• Neh 9:16 : 16 `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,
• Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin, 26 On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner `of the beard', Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations `are' uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel `are' uncircumcised in heart!
• Jer 17:23 : 23 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they stiffen their neck not to hear, And not to receive instruction.
• Ezek 2:4 : 4 And the sons `are' brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
• Exod 34:9 : 9 and saith, `If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, O my Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go in our midst (for it `is' a stiff-necked people), and thou hast forgiven our iniquity and our sin, and hast inherited us.'
• Deut 30:6 : 6 `And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
• Deut 9:6 : 6 and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou `art'.
• Deut 9:13 : 13 `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it `is';
• Zech 7:11-12 : 11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. 12 And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.