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Acts 13:18

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

KJV

καὶ ὡς τεσσερακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ,

Greek NT

et per quadraginta annorum tempus mores eorum sustinuit in deserto.

Vulgate

And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

ASV

And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
τεσσαρακονταετής
tessarakontaetes
adjective · 2×
τροποφορέω
tropophoreo
verb · 1×
χρόνος
chronos
noun · 54×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρημος
eremos
adjective · 48×
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Acts 7:39 — To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
  • Amos 2:10 — Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  • Amos 5:25 — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
  • Deut 1:31 — And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD 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 — And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD 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 9:7 — Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been reb
  • Deut 9:21 — And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that d
  • Exod 16:2 — And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
  • Exod 16:35 — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • Ezek 20:10 — Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
  • Heb 3:7 — Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
  • Heb 3:16 — For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
  • Hos 11:3 — I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
  • Matt 17:17 — Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
  • Neh 9:16 — But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
  • Neh 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
  • Num 14:22 — Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
  • Num 14:33 — And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
  • Ps 78:17 — And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
  • Ps 95:8 — Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • Ps 95:10 — Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  • Ps 106:13 — They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: