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Acts 13:19

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

KJV

καὶ καθελὼν ἔθνη ἑπτὰ ἐν γῇ Χανάαν κατεκληρονόμησεν τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν

Greek NT

Et destruens gentes septem in terra Chanaan, sorte distribuit eis terram eorum,

Vulgate

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:

ASV

And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided their land among them by lot.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χαναάν
chanaan
noun · 2×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθαιρέω
kathaireo
verb · 9×
κατακληροδοτέω
kataklerodoteo
verb · 1×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἑπτά
epta
adjective · 88×
ἔθνος
ethnos
noun · 162×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ | Treg/NIV/RP: καὶ
  • καὶSBLGNT
  • καὶTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: κατεκληρονόμησεν | WH/Treg/NIV: κατεκληρονόμησεν | RP: + αὐτοῖς
  • κατεκληρονόμησενSBLGNT
  • κατεκληρονόμησενWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + αὐτοῖςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:45 — Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
  • Deut 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanit
  • Deut 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanit
  • Gen 12:5 — And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan
  • Gen 17:8 — And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Jonah 1:7 — And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
  • Josh 14:1 — And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the childre
  • Josh 18:6 — Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
  • Josh 18:9 — And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
  • Josh 18:10 — And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
  • Josh 18:10 — And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
  • Josh 19:51 — These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh befor
  • Josh 24:11 — And ye went over 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
  • Neh 9:24 — So 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, with their kings, and the people of the la
  • Num 26:53 — Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
  • Ps 78:55 — He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
  • Ps 135:11 — Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: