What Does Acts 15:14 Mean?

“Simeon”

symeon (i.e., shimon), the name of five israelites

“hath declared”

to consider out (aloud), i.e., rehearse, unfold

“how”

just (or inasmuch) as, that

“at the first”

firstly (in time, place, order, or importance)

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“God”

a deity, especially (with g3588) the supreme divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by hebraism)

“did visit”

to inspect, i.e., (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve

“to take”

while g0138 is more violent, to seize or remove))

“out of”

a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause literal or figurative; direct

“the Gentiles”

a race (as of the same habit), i.e., a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)

“them a people”

a people (in general; thus differing from g1218, which denotes one's own populace)

“for”

properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e., over, upon, etc.; of re

the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)

“name”

a "name" (literally or figuratively) (authority, character)

the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons