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Acts 13:18

He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

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ASV

And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

KJV

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ὡςhōsof aboutG5613 →
τεσσερακονταετῆtesserakontaetēforty yearsG5063 →
χρόνονchrononfor a periodG5550 →
ἐτροποφόρησενetropophorēsenHe endured the waysG5159 →
αὐτοὺςautousof themG846 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
τῇtēatheG3588 →
ἐρήμῳ,erēmōwilderness,G2048 →

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Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.Matthew 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”Nehemiah 9:21For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”Amos 2:10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.Numbers 14:33–34Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.Hebrews 3:7–10Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,Acts 7:39–43But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.Amos 5:25–26Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”Ezekiel 20:10–17So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.Deuteronomy 9:7Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.Psalms 78:17–42But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—Exodus 16:2And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.Deuteronomy 9:21–24And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.Nehemiah 9:16–21But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.Psalms 95:8–11do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

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