Acts 19:27
New Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth."
Word-by-Word Analysis
ἔνοχος
énochos
liable to (a condition, penalty or imputation)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
מְאוּמָה
mᵉʼûwmâh
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
הֵיכָל
hêykâl
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
גָּדוֹל
gâdôwl
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Ἄρτεμις
Ártemis
prompt; Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities
אֶלָּסָר
ʼEllâçâr
Ellasar, an early country of Asia
תֵּבֵל
têbêl
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia,...
Key Terms in This Verse
אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Study H842 →Ἄρτεμις Ártemis
prompt; Artemis, the name of a Grecian goddess borrowed by the Asiatics for one of their deities
Study G735 →מְאוּמָה mᵉʼûwmâh
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
Study H3972 →Cross References
The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
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