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Acts 7:14 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 14
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.Acts 7:14 · King James Version
Acts 7:14 in context
12But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
15So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- threescorehebdomēkontaseventy, the seventy disciples whom Jesus sent out in addition to the twelve apostlesG1440 →
- kindredsyngeneiaa kinship, relationship, kindred, relations collectively, familyG4772 →
- kindredenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- fifteenpentefiveG4002 →
- JosephiōsēphJoseph = " let him add" , the patriarch, the eleventh son of Jacob, the son of…G2501 →
- calledmetakaleōto call from one place to another, to summon, to call one's selfG3333 →
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Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous words against Moses and God; for he spoke against this holy place and the law. Now here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16