Acts 17:29
Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
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ASV
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
KJV
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
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22 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| γένος | genos | Offspring | G1085 → |
| οὖν | oun | therefore | G3767 → |
| ὑπάρχοντες | huparchontes | being | G5225 → |
| τοῦ | tou | <the> | G3588 → |
| θεοῦ | theou | of God | G2316 → |
| οὐκ | ouk | not | G3756 → |
| ὀφείλομεν | opheilomen | we ought | G3784 → |
| νομίζειν | nomizein | to consider | G3543 → |
| χρυσῷ | chrusō | to gold | G5557 → |
| ἢ | ē | or | G2228 → |
| ἀργύρῳ | argurō | to silver | G696 → |
| ἢ | ē | or | G2228 → |
| λίθῳ, | lithō | to stone, | G3037 → |
| χαράγματι | charagmati | a graven thing | G5480 → |
| τέχνης | technēs | of craft | G5078 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| ἐνθυμήσεως | enthumēseōs | imagination | G1761 → |
| ἀνθρώπου, | anthrōpou | of man, | G444 → |
| τὸ | to | the | G3588 → |
| θεῖον | theion | Divine Being | G2304 → |
| εἶναι | einai | to be | G1511 → |
| ὅμοιον. | homoion | like. | G3664 → |
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