Bible Verse Dictionary
Acts 17:16 - At
Verse | Strongs No. | Greek | |
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Now | G1161 | δέ |
[Conjunction] but and etc. |
while Paul | G3972 | Παῦλος |
[Noun Masculine] (little; but remotely from a derivative of G3973 meaning the same); Paulus the name of a Roman and of an apostle |
waited for | G1551 | ἐκδέχομαι |
[Verb] to accept from some source that is (by implication) to await |
them | G846 | αὐτός |
backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
at | G1722 | ἐν |
[Preposition]
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Athens | G116 | Ἀθῆναι |
[Noun Location] Athenae the captital of Greece |
his | G848 | αὑτοῦ |
self (in some oblique case or reflexive relation) |
spirit | G4151 | πνεῦμα |
[Noun Neuter] a current of air that is breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively a spirit that is (human) the rational soul (by implication) vital principle mental disposition etc. or (superhuman) an angel daemon or (divine) God Christ´ s spirit the Holy spirit |
was stirred | G3947 | παροξύνω |
[Verb] to sharpen alongside that is (figuratively) to exasperate |
in | G1722 | ἐν |
[Preposition]
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him | G846 | αὐτός |
backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
when he saw | G2334 | θεωρέω |
[Verb] to be a spectator of that is discern (literally figuratively [experience] or intensively [acknowledge]) |
the | G3588 | ὁ |
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom) |
city | G4172 | πόλις |
[Noun Feminine] a town (properly with walls of greater or less size) |
wholly given to idolatry | G2712 | κατείδωλος |
[Adjective] utterly idolatrous |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.