Acts 22:16 trusting in Jesus to save you Literally, “calling on his name,” meaning to show faith in Jesus by worshiping him or praying to him for help. Acts 22:23 ripping … air These actions were signs of very strong anger. Acts 22:25 Roman citizen Roman law said that Roman citi...
ἀκρίβεια gives the meaning as “exactness, precision.” To avoid the potential misunderstanding the translation “with strictness” is used, although it is slightly more awkward than “strictly.” Acts 22:3 tn Grk“strictly at the feet of” (an idiom). Acts 22:3 tn Or “...
However, whilst the first has become formulaic and lexically bleached as a polite mitigator of the request to avoid face-threatening the interlocutor, the latter retains its original ‘emotional’ meaning. In fact, they even translate differently in English, where the polite mitigator translates as...
Acts 3:22-23.For Moses— The first of these prophets, whose writings have come down to us;truly said unto the fathers— In his early days;A prophet shall the Lord raise up unto you— Namely, in after times;of your brethren— Of the posterity of Jacob; (see the note onDeuteronomy 18...
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. —Toni Cade Bambara 4 Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as littl...
Livelihood A handful of hay or straw; by extension a quantity of anything (OED); in modern Irish slang, a large quantity; which seems to be closer to the meaning here. A low scoundrel Ritual washing The Sunday after Easter Gained, profited Powerful desire – not necessarily sexual Telling ...
Acts 13:22 Meaning and Commentary Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him Either by death, or rejected him from being king while he was living; (1 Samuel 15:23) (16:1) he raised up unto them David to be their king; who was of the tribe of Judah, and who was raised from a ve...
Several mammalian autophagy genes, as Atg3, Atg5, Atg7, Ambra1, FIP200 and Becn1, among others, operate in a non-redundant way in central hubs of the autophagic pathway, meaning that their knockout causes a complete (and lethal) defect in autophagy.16 In contrast to the former cases, mam...
Hence, this issue is a matter of how we define a unit of meaning. In the present study, the criterion for a unit of meaning is that it has an illocutionary force, and it is assumed that headlines have an illocutionary force. 2.2. The application of the concept of illocutionary act to ...
A word meaning literally “a gathering together”. In the NT it sometimes refers to... 7458 tabernacle, the 7458 tabernacle, the The tabernacle (tent) was a portable and temporary shrine used for worship... 7460 tabernacle, in NT 7460 tabernacle, in NT The NT sees the...