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Acts 4:36

And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

KJV

Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶς Βαρναβᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον υἱὸς παρακλήσεως, Λευείτης, Κύπριος τῷ γένει,

Greek NT

Joseph autem, qui cognominatus est Barnabas ab Apostolis (quod est interpretatum, Filius consolationis), Levites, Cyprius genere,

Vulgate

And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of exhortation), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

ASV

And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which is, by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian born,

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People Barnabas
Places Cyprus

In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Βαρνάβας
barnabas
noun · 28×
Κύπριος
kuprios
noun · 3×
Λευΐτης
leuites
noun · 3×
γένος
genos
noun · 20×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
μεθερμηνεύω
methermeneuo
verb · 7×
παράκλησις
paraklesis
noun · 29×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
noun · 79×
ἐπικαλέομαι
epikaleomai
verb · 30×
Ἰωσήφ
ioseph
noun · 35×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

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

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SBLGNT: Ἰωσὴφ | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἰωσὴφ | RP: Ἰωσῆς
  • ἸωσὴφSBLGNT
  • ἸωσὴφWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἸωσῆςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§20Love of neighbour, grounded in the love of God, is first and foremost a responsibility for each individual member of the faithful, but it is also a responsibility for the entire ecclesial community at every level: from the local community to the particular Church and to the Church universal in its entirety. As a community, the Church must practise love. Love thus needs to be or…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:6 — Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
  • 1Cor 9:6 — Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?
  • Acts 9:27 — But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the nam
  • Acts 11:19 — Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
  • Acts 11:22 — Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
  • Acts 11:30 — Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
  • Acts 12:25 — And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.
  • Acts 12:25 — And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.
  • Acts 13:1 — Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod th
  • Acts 13:4 — So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
  • Acts 15:37 — And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
  • Acts 15:39 — And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
  • Acts 15:39 — And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
  • Acts 21:3 — Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
  • Acts 21:16 — There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
  • Acts 27:4 — And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
  • Gal 2:1 — Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
  • Gal 2:9 — And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen,
  • Gal 2:13 — And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
  • Gal 2:13 — And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
  • Lev 25:34 — But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.