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Acts 17:20 Interlinear

“strange things For certain thou bringest to ears our we would therefore know what mean these things ”

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Acts 17 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	ξενίζοντα	G3579	strange things	to be a host (passively, a guest); by implication, be (make, appear) strange
2	γάρ	G1063	For	properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
3	τινα	G5100	certain	some or any person or object
4	εἰσφέρεις	G1533	thou bringest	to carry inward (literally or figuratively)
5	εἰς	G1519	to	to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases
6	τὰς	G3588		the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
7	ἀκοὰς	G189	ears	hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard)
8	ἡμῶν·	G2257	our	of (or from) us
9	βουλόμεθα	G1014	we would	to "will," i.e., (reflexively) be willing
10	οὖν	G3767	therefore	(adverbially) certainly, or (conjunctionally) accordingly
11	γνῶναι	G1097	know	to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed)
12	τί	G5101	what	an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
13	ἂν	G302	mean	whatsoever
14	θέλοι	G2309		to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas g1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations),
15	ταῦτα	G5023	these things	these things
16	εἶναι	G1511		to exist

Acts 17:20 (current)strange things For certain thou bringest to ears our we would therefore know what mean these things