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Acts 13

Acts 13:19 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
when he had destroyed
kathaireo (Greek #2507)
to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: cast (pull, put, take) down, destroy.
Pronounce: kath-ahee-reh'-o
Origin: from 2596 and 138 (including its alternate)
i seven
hepta (Greek #2033)
seven
KJV usage: seven.
Pronounce: hep-tah'
Origin: a primary number
nations
ethnos (Greek #1484)
a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: eth'-nos
Origin: probably from 1486
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 land
ge (Greek #1093)
soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application)
KJV usage: country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
Pronounce: ghay
Origin: contracted from a primary word
of Chanaan
Chanaan (Greek #5477)
Chanaan (i.e. Kenaan), the early name of Palestine
KJV usage: Chanaan.
Pronounce: khan-ah-an'
Origin: of Hebrew origin (03667)
, hek divided
kataklerodoteo (Greek #2624)
to be a giver of lots to each, i.e. (by implication) to apportion an estate
KJV usage: divide by lot.
Pronounce: kat-ak-lay-rod-ot-eh'-o
Origin: from 2596 and a derivative of a compound of 2819 and 1325
their
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)
land
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
ge (Greek #1093)
soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application)
KJV usage: country, earth(-ly), ground, land, world.
Pronounce: ghay
Origin: contracted from a primary word
to them
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)
by lot
kataklerodoteo (Greek #2624)
to be a giver of lots to each, i.e. (by implication) to apportion an estate
KJV usage: divide by lot.
Pronounce: kat-ak-lay-rod-ot-eh'-o
Origin: from 2596 and a derivative of a compound of 2819 and 1325
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Deut. 7:1• 1When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations from before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou, (Deut. 7:1)
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Josh. 14:1• 1And this is what the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, allotted for inheritance to them: (Josh. 14:1)
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Chanaan,
Seven

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Ministry on This Verse

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Acts 7:45• 45which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of the lands of the nations, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David; (Acts 7:45)
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Deut. 7:1• 1When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations from before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou, (Deut. 7:1)
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Josh. 24:11• 11And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho, and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. (Josh. 24:11)
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Neh. 9:24• 24And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. (Neh. 9:24)
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Psa. 78:55• 55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. (Psa. 78:55)
Chanaan.
Gen. 12:5• 5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (Gen. 12:5)
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Gen. 17:8• 8And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. (Gen. 17:8)
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Psa. 135:11• 11Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan; (Psa. 135:11)
Canaan.
he divided.
Num. 26:53‑56• 53Unto these shall the land be divided for an inheritance according to the number of the names;
 54to the many thou shalt increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance; to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
 55Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they inherit;
 56according to lot shall his inheritance be divided to each, be they many or few in number. (Num. 26:53‑56)
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Josh. 14:1• 1And this is what the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, allotted for inheritance to them: (Josh. 14:1)
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Josh. 18:10• 10And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah. And there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions. (Josh. 18:10)
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Josh. 23:4• 4Behold, I have divided unto you by lot for an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, from the Jordan, as well as all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the great sea toward the sun-setting. (Josh. 23:4)
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Psa. 78:55• 55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. (Psa. 78:55)
• It is not giving by lot which is the point, though in itself true, as (by the least and lowest possible testimony) in the received text, but causing them to inherit their land. (“Acts 13:13-31” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

W. Kelly Translation

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and when he had destroyed seven nations in [the] land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance in abouta four hundred and fifty years.

WK Translation Notes

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It appears to me that the dative of epoch suits the sense of the critical text. Both before and after this phrase the accusative is given to express a term of continuance, here only the dative (one whole point or object). Now if the idea intended were the supply of judges for 450 years, the accusative (a space during which) would here also be the natural construction. At any rate, it is a date within which a certain action occurred, and not duration as in the other cases. If the oldest vouchers be accepted, it was in about 450 years that Israel was made to inherit this land, after the promise to "our fathers," i.e., from the birth of Isaac as the starting-point.