Acts 2:42
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָסַף
yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
ἀπόστολος
apóstolos
a delegate; specially, an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ ("apostle") (with miraculous powers)
לֶקַח
leqach
properly, something received, i.e. (mentally) instruction (whether on the part of the teacher or hearer); also (in an active and sinister sense) invei...
חָבַר
châbar
to join (literally or figuratively); specifically (by means of spells) to fascinate
פָּרַר
pârar
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
תְּפִלָּה
tᵉphillâh
intercession, supplication; by implication, a hymn
Key Terms in This Verse
שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →חָבַר châbar
to join (literally or figuratively); specifically (by means of spells) to fascinate
Study H2266 →פָּרַר pârar
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
Study H6565 →יָסַף yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Study H3254 →לֶקַח leqach
properly, something received, i.e. (mentally) instruction (whether on the part of the teacher or hearer); also (in an active and sinister sense) inveiglement
Study H3948 →ἀπόστολος apóstolos
a delegate; specially, an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ ("apostle") (with miraculous powers)
Study G652 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →Cross References
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul...
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
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.
And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
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