Acts 2:40
New Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
עָנָה
ʻânâh
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, ...
παρακαλέω
parakaléō
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
יָשַׁע
yâshaʻ
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
σκολιός
skoliós
warped, i.e. winding; figuratively, perverse
דּוֹר
dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Key Terms in This Verse
παρακαλέω parakaléō
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
Study G3870 →עָנָה ʻânâh
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
Study H6030 →דּוֹר dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Study H1755 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →יָשַׁע yâshaʻ
properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
Study H3467 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, a...
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel ...
By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the hol...
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken ...
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
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