Acts 20:3

New Testament • 13 words with Strong's data

"And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia."

Word-by-Word Analysis

And there

יָשַׁב

yâshab

H3427

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

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שָׁלוֹשׁ

shâlôwsh

H7969

three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiple) thrice

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חֹדֶשׁ

chôdesh

H2320

the new moon; by implication, a month

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And when the

יְהוּדִי

Yᵉhûwdîy

H3064

a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)

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שׂוּם

sûwm

H7760

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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אָרַב

ʼârab

H693

to lurk

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for him as he was

סָבִיב

çâbîyb

H5439

(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around

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to

דִּין

dîyn

H1777

a straight course, i.e. sail direct

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into

אֲרָם

ʼĂrâm

H758

Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite

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he

חָשַׁב

châshab

H2803

properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious...

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to

שׁוּב

shûwb

H7725

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...

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עָבַר

ʻâbar

H5674

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...

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Μακεδονία

Makedonía

G3109

Macedonia, a region of Greece

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Key Terms in This Verse

sail H1777

דִּין dîyn

a straight course, i.e. sail direct

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purposed H2803

חָשַׁב châshab

properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, ...

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Macedonia G3109

Μακεδονία Makedonía

Macedonia, a region of Greece

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months H2320

חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh

the new moon; by implication, a month

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abode H3427

יָשַׁב yâshab

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

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Syria H758

אֲרָם ʼĂrâm

Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite

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wait H693

אָרַב ʼârab

to lurk

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Jews H3064

יְהוּדִי Yᵉhûwdîy

a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)

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return H7725

שׁוּב shûwb

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

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laid H7760

שׂוּם sûwm

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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Cross References

Acts 20:19 cross-reference

Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

2 Corinthians 11:26 cross-reference

In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, i...

Acts 25:3 cross-reference

And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

2 Corinthians 7:5 cross-reference

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

Galatians 1:21 cross-reference

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

Acts 16:9 cross-reference

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

Ezra 8:31 cross-reference

Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such a...

Jeremiah 5:26 cross-reference

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Proverbs 1:11 cross-reference

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

2 Corinthians 1:15 cross-reference

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

Acts 18:18 cross-reference

And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he ...

Acts 21:3 cross-reference

Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

Acts 19:21 cross-reference

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.

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