Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
KJV
καὶ κατέβη Ἰακὼβ εἰς Αἴγυπτον. καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν,
Greek NT
Et descendit Jacob in Ægyptum : et defunctus est ipse, et patres nostri.
Vulgate
And Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and our fathers;
ASV
So Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, and our fathers.
Douay-Rheims
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In this verse
In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Αἴγυπτος
aiguptos
noun · 25×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καταβαίνω
katabaino
verb · 78×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
τελευτάω
teleutao
verb · 11×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰακώβ
iakob
noun · 27×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: καὶ κατέβη | Treg/NIV: καὶ κατέβη | WH/RP: κατέβη δὲ
- καὶ κατέβη — SBLGNT
- καὶ κατέβη — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- κατέβη δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 26:5 — And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and
- Exod 1:6 — And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
- Gen 46:3 — And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
- Gen 46:6 — And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
- Gen 47:29 — And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and tru
- Gen 49:33 — And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
- Josh 24:4 — And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
- Num 20:15 — How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: