Acts 17:18
New Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
φιλόσοφος
philósophos
fond of wise things, i.e. a "philosopher"
Ἐπικούρειος
Epikoúreios
an Epicurean or follower of Epicurus
Στωϊκός
Stōïkós
a "Stoic" (as occupying a particular porch in Athens), i.e. adherent of a certin philosophy
συμβάλλω
symbállō
to combine, i.e. (in speaking) to converse, consult, dispute, (mentally) to consider, (by implication) to aid, (personally) to join, attack
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
לָשׁוֹן
lâshôwn
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
נֵכָר
nêkâr
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
בָּשַׂר
bâsar
properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news)
Ἰησοῦς
Iēsoûs
Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites
ἀνάστασις
anástasis
a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (mora...
Key Terms in This Verse
Στωϊκός Stōïkós
a "Stoic" (as occupying a particular porch in Athens), i.e. adherent of a certin philosophy
Study G4770 →συμβάλλω symbállō
to combine, i.e. (in speaking) to converse, consult, dispute, (mentally) to consider, (by implication) to aid, (personally) to join, attack
Study G4820 →לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
Study H3956 →עַיִן ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Study H5869 →ἀνάστασις anástasis
a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth)
Study G386 →בָּשַׂר bâsar
properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news)
Study H1319 →נֵכָר nêkâr
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
Study H5236 →Cross References
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
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