Acts 6:3
New Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
אָח
ʼâch
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
שֶׁבַע
shebaʻ
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
אָשַׁר
ʼâshar
to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
קֹדֶשׁ
qôdesh
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
גָּוַע
gâvaʻ
to breathe out, i.e. (by implication) expire
פָּקַד
pâqad
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
מְלָאכָה
mᵉlâʼkâh
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
Key Terms in This Verse
אָשַׁר ʼâshar
to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper
Study H833 →מְלָאכָה mᵉlâʼkâh
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
Study H4399 →פָּקַד pâqad
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Study H6485 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →מָלֵא mâlêʼ
full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
Study H4392 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →שֶׁבַע shebaʻ
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
Study H7651 →Cross References
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed...
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house,...
Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
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