What Does Acts 8:17 Mean?

“Then”

the when, i.e., at the time that (of the past or future, also in consecution)

“laid they”

to impose (in a friendly or hostile sense)

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

“their hands”

the hand (literally or figuratively (power); especially (by hebraism) a means or instrument)

“on”

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

“them”

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

“and”

and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words

“they received”

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

“Ghost”

a current of air, i.e., breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e., (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital prin

“the Holy”

sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated)