Bible Verse Dictionary
Acts 17:20 - Would
Verse | Strongs No. | Greek | |
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For | G1063 | γάρ |
[Conjunction] properly assigning a reason (used in argument explanation or intensification; often with other particles) |
thou bringest | G1533 | εἰσφέρω |
[Verb] to carry inward (literally or figuratively) |
certain | G5100 | τὶς |
some or any person or object |
strange things | G3579 | ξενίζω |
[Verb] to be a host (passively a guest); by implication be (make appear) strange |
to | G1519 | εἰς |
[Preposition] to or into (indicating the point reached or entered) of place time or (figuratively) purpose (result etc.); also in adverbial phrases. |
our | G2257 | ἡμῶν |
of (or from) us |
ears | G189 | ἀκοή |
[Noun Feminine] hearing (the act the sense or the thing heard) |
we would | G1014 | βούλομαι |
[Verb] to |
know | G1097 | γινώσκω |
[Verb] to |
therefore | G3767 | οὖν |
(adverbially) certainly or (conjugationally) accordingly |
what | G5101 | τίς |
an interrogitive pronoun who: which or what (in direct or indirect questions) |
these things | G3579 | ξενίζω |
[Verb] to be a host (passively a guest); by implication be (make appear) strange |
mean | G2309 | θέλω |
[Verb] apparently strengthened from the alternate form of G138; to determine (as an active voice option from subjective impulse; whereas G1014 properly denotes rather a passive voice acquiescence in objective considerations) that is choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication to wish that is be inclined to (sometimes adverbially gladly); impersonally for the future tense to be about to; by Hebraism to delight in |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.