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Acts 7:46

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

KJV

ὃς εὗρεν χάριν ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ᾐτήσατο εὑρεῖν σκήνωμα τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰακώβ.

Greek NT

qui invenit gratiam ante Deum, et petiit ut inveniret tabernaculum Deo Jacob.

Vulgate

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

ASV

Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Douay-Rheims

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People JacobJacob

In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἰτέω
aiteo
verb · 70×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οἶκος
oikos
noun · 115×
σκήνωμα
skenoma
noun · 3×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἐνώπιον
enopion
preposition · 93×
Ἰακώβ
iakob
noun · 27×
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: θεῷ | WH/Treg/NIV/RP: θεῷ | NA: οἴκῳ
  • θεῷSBLGNT
  • θεῷWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • οἴκῳNestle-Aland 27
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 17:1 — Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
  • 1Chr 22:7 — And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
  • 1Sam 13:14 — But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LOR
  • 1Sam 16:1 — And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: fo
  • 1Sam 16:11 — And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not
  • 2Sam 6:21 — And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play befo
  • 2Sam 7:1 — And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
  • 2Sam 7:2 — That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
  • 2Sam 7:8 — Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
  • 2Sam 7:18 — Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
  • Acts 13:22 — And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfi
  • Acts 13:22 — And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfi
  • Gen 6:8 — But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Ps 132:1 — Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
  • Ps 132:5 — Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.