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Acts 21:40 KJV
Acts · chapter 21 · verse 40 · King James Version
And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,Acts 21:40 · King James Version
Acts 21:40 in context
38Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
39But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
40And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Key words (Strong's)
- beckonedkataseiōto shake down, throw down, to shake, to make a sign, to signal with the hand to oneG2678 →
- silencesigēsilenceG4602 →
- stairsanabathmosan ascent, a means of going up, a flight of stairs, stairsG304 →
- peoplelaosa people, people group, tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language…G2992 →
- givenepitrepōto turn to, transfer, commit, intrust, to permit, allow, give leaveG2010 →
- stoodhistēmito cause or make to stand, to place, put, set, to bid to stand by, [set up], in the…G2476 →
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