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Acts 7:39

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

KJV

ᾧ οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ὑπήκοοι γενέσθαι οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἀλλὰ ἀπώσαντο καὶ ἐστράφησαν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν εἰς Αἴγυπτον,

Greek NT

Cui noluerunt obedire patres nostri : sed repulerunt, et aversi sunt cordibus suis in Ægyptum,

Vulgate

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

ASV

Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Αἴγυπτος
aiguptos
noun · 25×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
στρέφω
strepho
verb · 22×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀπωθέομαι
apotheomai
verb · 6×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑπήκοος
upekoos
adjective · 3×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις | RP: τῇ καρδίᾳ
  • ἐν ταῖς καρδίαιςSBLGNT
  • ἐν ταῖς καρδίαιςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τῇ καρδίᾳRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Acts 7:51 — Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
  • Acts 13:18 — And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
  • Exod 13:17 — And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent
  • Exod 16:3 — And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brou
  • Ezek 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
  • Jude 1:8 — Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
  • Neh 9:16 — But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
  • Num 11:5 — We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
  • Num 11:18 — And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us i
  • Num 14:3 — And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
  • Num 14:4 — And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
  • Ps 78:41 — Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.