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Acts 7:23

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

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ASV

But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

KJV

And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
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δὲdethenG1161 →
ἐπληροῦτοeplēroutowas fulfilledG4137 →
αὐτῷautōto himG846 →
τεσσερακονταετὴςtesserakontaetēsof forty yearsG5063 →
χρόνος,chronosa period,G5550 →
ἀνέβηanebēit cameG305 →
ἐπὶepiintoG1909 →
τὴνtēntheG3588 →
καρδίανkardianmindG2588 →
αὐτοῦautouof himG846 →
ἐπισκέψασθαιepiskepsasthaito visitG1980 →
τοὺςtoustheG3588 →
ἀδελφοὺςadelphousbrothersG80 →
αὐτοῦautouof himG846 →
τοὺςtoustheG3588 →
υἱοὺςhuioussonsG5207 →
Ἰσραήλ.Israēlof Israel.G2474 →

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Exodus 7:7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.Exodus 2:11–12One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.Philippians 2:12–13Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.Hebrews 11:24–26By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.Proverbs 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.Ezra 7:27Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,Revelation 17:17For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.Deuteronomy 31:2he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’Exodus 35:21And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.Exodus 35:29So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.Ezra 1:1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:Ezra 1:5So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 30:12Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.Exodus 4:18Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.1 Chronicles 29:17–19I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

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