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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 how that Jehovah 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• 36This [man] 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] away and turned in their hearts into 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 is become of him.
 41And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
 42But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Did ye offer me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
 43Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to worship 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 carcasses 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 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; 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 to sin against him,{HR}To rebel against the Most High in the desert (dry);
 18And they tempted God in their hearts{HR}By asking food for their lust (souls).
 19And they spoke against God; they said,{HR}Shall God be able to furnish a table in the wilderness?
 20Behold, he smote the rock,{HR}And waters gushed out,{HR}And streams overflowed;{HR}Can he give bread also,{HR}Or provide flesh for his people?
 21Therefore Jehovah heard and was wroth;{HR}And fire was kindled against Jacob,{HR}And anger also went up against Israel;
 22Because they believed not in God{HR}And trusted not in his salvation.
 23Yet he commanded the skies above,{HR}And opened the doors of heaven,
 24And he rained upon them manna to eat,{HR}And had given them the corn of the heavens.
 25Man did eat the bread of the mighty;{HR}He sent them provision to the full.
 26He led forth the east [wind] in the heavens,{HR}And by his strength guided the south [wind],
 27And he rained flesh upon them as dust{HR}And winged fowl as sand of the sea,
 28And let it fall in the midst of the camp{HR}Round about their habitations.
 29And they did eat and were well filled.{HR}He brought to them their desire;
 30They were not estranged from their desire;{HR}Their food [was] yet in their mouths,
 31When God's anger went up against them and slew their fattest,{HR}And smote down the chosen of Israel.
 32For all this they sinned still,{HR}And believed not in his wondrous works;
 33He consumed their days in vanity,{HR}And their years in terror.
 34When he slew them, then they enquired after him,{HR}And turned and sought God (El) eagerly.
 35And they remembered that God [was] their rock,{HR}And God Most High their redeemer.
 36And they flattered (enticed) him with their mouth,{HR}And lied to him with their tongue.
 37And their heart was not firm with him,{HR}Nor were they steadfast in his covenant.
 38But he mercifully forgave iniquity, and destroyed not,{HR}And often withdrew his anger and did not arouse all his wrath;
 39And he remembered that they [were] flesh,{HR}A wind passing and not coming again.
 40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness{HR}And grieve him in the desert!
 41And they turned again and tempted God ,{HR}And limited the Holy One of Israel.
 42They remembered not his hand,{HR}The day when he delivered them from oppression, (Psa. 78:17‑42)
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Psa. 95:8‑11• 8Harden not your heart like Meribah,{HR}Like the day of Massah in the wilderness;
 9When your fathers tempted me,{HR}Proved me, and saw my work.
 10Forty years long was I disgusted with the generation and said,{HR}A people erring in heart [are] they,{HR}And they have not known my ways,
 11To whom I swore in mine anger{HR}That they shall not come into my rest. (Psa. 95:8‑11)
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Psa. 106:13‑29• 13They hasted, they forgot his works,{HR}They waited not for his counsel;
 14And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,{HR}And tempted God in the desert.
 15And he gave them their request,{HR}And sent leanness into their soul.
 16And they were envious of Moses in the camp,{HR}Of Aaron, saint of Jehovah.
 17Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,{HR}And covered Abiram's company.
 18And a fire burned in their company,{HR}A flame consumed wicked ones.
 19They made a calf in Horeb{HR}And bowed down to a molten image;
 20And changed their glory{HR}For the likeness of an ox eating grass.
 21They forgot God their Saviour{HR}That did great things in Egypt,
 22Wondrous works in Ham's land,{HR}Terrible things at the Red Sea.
 23And he said he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying.
 24And they despised the pleasant land,{HR}They believed not his word;
 25But they murmured in their tents;{HR}They did not hearken to Jehovah's voice.
 26And he lifted up his hand to them,{HR}To make them fall in the wilderness,
 27And to make their seed fall among the nations,{HR}And to scatter them in the lands.
 28And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor{HR}And ate sacrifices of dead (beings).
 29And they provoked him by their actions,{HR}And the plague broke out among them. (Psa. 106:13‑29)
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Ezek. 20:10‑17• 10I therefore brought them 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 Jehovah 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 shrines of your king, and the basis of 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• 1For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
 2and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
 3and all ate the same spiritual meat,
 4and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking of a spiritual attendant rock (and the rock was Christ);
 5but in the most of them God had no pleasure, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 6But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, even as they also lusted.
 7Neither be ye idolaters, even as 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, even as some of them committed, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
 9Neither let us tempt the Lord, even as some of them tempted, and were perishing by the serpents.
 10Neither murmur ye, according 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 the Holy Spirit saith, Today, if ye will hear his voice,
 8harden not your hearts as in the provocation, through the day of temptation in the wilderness
 9when your fathers tempted [me], proved [me], and saw my works forty years.
 10Wherefore I was wroth with this generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they knew not my ways:
 16For who having heard provoked? But did not all that came out of Egypt by Moses?
 17And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
 18And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest but to those that disobeyed?
 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 which the apostle, beyond just doubt, had in view.