1 Thessalonians 1:7
New Testament • 4 words with Strong's data
"So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia."
Word-by-Word Analysis
English grammatical function word ('ensamples'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivale...
אָמַן
ʼâman
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanen...
Μακεδονία
Makedonía
Macedonia, a region of Greece
Ἀχαΐα
Achaḯa
Achaia (i.e. Greece), a country of Europe
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('ensamples'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are ...
Study GRAM →אָמַן ʼâman
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
Study H539 →Cross References
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon...
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
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