King James Version
Acts 2:8 in the King James Version says “And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?” — study this verse from Acts chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”
Acts 2:8 · KJV
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. was: Gr. voice was made confounded: or, troubled in mind
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another , Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
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“And”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“how”
G4459an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
“we were born”
G1080to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate
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