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Acts 11:9

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

KJV

ἀπεκρίθη δὲ φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρου ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἃ ὁ θεὸς ἐκαθάρισεν σὺ μὴ κοίνου.

Greek NT

Respondit autem vox secundo de cælo : Quæ Deus mundavit, tu ne commune dixeris.

Vulgate

But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

ASV

And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεύτερος
deuteros
adjective · 42×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
κοινόω
koinoo
verb · 14×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οὐρανός
ouranos
noun · 274×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρου | Treg/NIV: φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρου | WH: ἐκ δευτέρου φωνὴ | RP: μοι φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρου
  • φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρουSBLGNT
  • φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρουTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐκ δευτέρου φωνὴWestcott-Hort
  • μοι φωνὴ ἐκ δευτέρουRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 10:15 — And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
  • Acts 10:28 — And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man commo
  • Acts 15:9 — And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
  • Heb 9:13 — For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
  • Mark 7:19 — Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?