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Acts 21:40
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Acts 21:40
40And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
40And when he had giuen him licence, Paul stood on the staires, and beckened with the hand vnto the people: and when there was made a great silence, he spake vnto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 21:40
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
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Having a sign made to.
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The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
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The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
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A member of the Hebrew people; the Hebrew language; Hebrew in origin.
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The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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Open the full verse study17But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
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Open the full verse study2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
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Open the full verse study14And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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Open the full verse study2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
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Open the full verse study33And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
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Open the full verse study35And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
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Open the full verse study13Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
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Open the full verse study16Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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Open the full verse study1AND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
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Open the full verse study13¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
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Open the full verse study17And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
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Open the full verse study20This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
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Open the full verse study38And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Open the full verse study16And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
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Open the full verse study11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
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