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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 did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto 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 how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. (Deut. 1:31)
, according to the LXX; and so Chrysostom.

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Acts 7:36,39‑43• 36He brought them out, after that he had showed 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 obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
 40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
 41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
 42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
 43Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. (Acts 7:36,39‑43)
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Ex. 16:2,35• 2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
 35And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. (Ex. 16:2,35)
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Num. 14:22,33‑34• 22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now 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 searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. (Num. 14:22,33‑34)
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Deut. 9:7,21‑24• 7Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
 22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.
 23Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
 24Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. (Deut. 9:7,21‑24)
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Neh. 9:16‑21• 16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
 17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and 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 had wrought great provocations;
 19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show 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, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. (Neh. 9:16‑21)
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Psa. 78:17‑42• 17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
 18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
 19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
 20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
 21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
 22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
 23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
 24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
 25Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
 26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
 27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
 28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
 29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
 30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
 31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
 32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
 33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
 34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
 35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
 36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
 37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
 38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
 39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
 40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
 41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
 42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. (Psa. 78:17‑42)
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Psa. 95:8‑11• 8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
 11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. (Psa. 95:8‑11)
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Psa. 106:13‑29• 13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
 14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
 15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
 16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.
 17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
 18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
 19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
 20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
 21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
 22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
 23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
 24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
 25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
 26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
 27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
 28They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
 29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. (Psa. 106:13‑29)
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Ezek. 20:10‑17• 10Wherefore 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 showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
 12Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
 13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then 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 polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
 15Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
 16Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
 17Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. (Ezek. 20:10‑17)
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Amos 5:25‑26• 25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
 26But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. (Amos 5:25‑26)
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1 Cor. 10:1‑10• 1Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
 2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
 3And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
 4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
 5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
 7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
 9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
 10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. (1 Cor. 10:1‑10)
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Heb. 3:7‑10,16‑19• 7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
 8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
 9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
 10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
 16For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
 17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
 19So we see that they could not enter in because 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.