Acts 11:5
New Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
עִיר
ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
תַּרְדֵּמָה
tardêmâh
a lethargy or (by implication) trance
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
חָזוֹן
châzôwn
a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation, or oracle
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
כְּלִי
kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
יָרַד
yârad
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau...
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שָׁמַיִם
shâmayim
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...
פֵּאָה
pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָרַד yârad
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applicat...
Study H3381 →פֵּאָה pêʼâh
properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e. direction, region, extremity
Study H6285 →כְּלִי kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Study H3627 →Cross References
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
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