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Acts 13

Acts 13:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
about
hos (Greek #5613)
which how, i.e. in that manner (very variously used, as follows)
KJV usage: about, after (that), (according) as (it had been, it were), as soon (as), even as (like), for, how (greatly), like (as, unto), since, so (that), that, to wit, unto, when(-soever), while, X with all speed.
Pronounce: hoce
Origin: probably adverb of comparative from 3739
the time
chronos (Greek #5550)
a space of time (in general, and thus properly distinguished from 2540, which designates a fixed or special occasion; and from 165, which denotes a particular period) or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay
KJV usage: + years old, season, space, (X often-)time(-s), (a) while.
Pronounce: khron'-os
Origin: of uncertain derivation
of fortyg years
tessarakontaetes (Greek #5063)
of forty years of age
KJV usage: (+ full, of) forty years (old).
Pronounce: tes-sar-ak-on-tah-et-ace'
Origin: from 5062 and 2094
δsuffered he
tropophoreo (Greek #5159)
to endure one's habits
KJV usage: suffer the manners.
Pronounce: trop-of-or-eh'-o
Origin: from 5158 and 5409
their manners
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
the wilderness
eremos (Greek #2048)
lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, 5561 being implied)
KJV usage: desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
Pronounce: er'-ay-mos
Origin: of uncertain affinity
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ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
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Ex. 16:35• 35And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. (Ex. 16:35)
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ετροποφορησεν, perhaps for ετροφοφορησεν, bore, or, fed them, as a nurse beareth, or, feedeth her child,
Deut. 1:31• 31and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place. (Deut. 1:31)
, according to the LXX; and so Chrysostom.

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Acts 7:36,39‑43• 36*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
 39to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
 40saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.
 41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
 42But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
 43Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon. (Acts 7:36,39‑43)
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Ex. 16:2,35• 2And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.
 35And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. (Ex. 16:2,35)
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Num. 14:22,33‑34• 22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
 33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
 34After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you. (Num. 14:22,33‑34)
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Deut. 9:7,21‑24• 7Remember, forget not, how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah.
 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain.
 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
 23And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you, ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
 24Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you. (Deut. 9:7,21‑24)
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Neh. 9:16‑21• 16But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
 17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
 18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,
 19yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
 20Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
 21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not. (Neh. 9:16‑21)
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Psa. 78:17‑42• 17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
 18And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
 19And they spoke against God: they said, Is *God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
 20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
 21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
 22Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
 23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
 24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
 25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
 26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
 27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
 28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
 29And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
 30They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
 31When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
 32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
 33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
 34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after *God;
 35And they remembered that God was their rock, and *God, the Most High, their redeemer.
 36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
 37For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
 38But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
 39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
 40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
 41And they turned again and tempted *God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
 42They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor, (Psa. 78:17‑42)
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Psa. 95:8‑11• 8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;
 11So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest. (Psa. 95:8‑11)
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Psa. 106:13‑29• 13They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
 14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
 15Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
 16And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
 17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
 18And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
 19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
 20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
 21They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
 22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
 23And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
 24And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
 25But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
 26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
 27And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
 28And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
 29And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them. (Psa. 106:13‑29)
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Ezek. 20:10‑17• 10And I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
 11And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
 12And I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that hallow them.
 13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: and I said I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
 14But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
 15And I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all lands;
 16because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
 17But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. (Ezek. 20:10‑17)
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Amos 5:25‑26• 25Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
 26Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves; (Amos 5:25‑26)
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1 Cor. 10:1‑10• 1For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
 2and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
 3and all ate the same spiritual food,
 4and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them:
 5yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.
 6But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
 7Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 9Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.
 10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. (1 Cor. 10:1‑10)
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Heb. 3:7‑10,16‑19• 7Wherefore, even as says the Holy Spirit, To-day if ye will hear his voice,
 8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness;
 9where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.
 10Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways;
 16(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?
 17And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?
 19And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;) (Heb. 3:7‑10,16‑19)
suffered."Gr. [tropophoreo ,] perhaps for [trophophoreo,] bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth or feedeth her child, De 1:31; according to the LXX., and so Chrysostom."

J. N. Darby Translation

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and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.

W. Kelly Translation

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and for a time of about forty years bore them nurse-likea in the desert;

WK Translation Notes

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"Bore them nurse-like," this beautiful expression though weakened in the more favourite ancient MSS. is happily preserved in other MSS. and ancient versions, as it seems truest to the Hebrew in {vi 4924}{/vi} which the apostle, beyond just doubt, had in view.