Acts 6:9
and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,This verse in the real world
Who
In what words
- ΛιβερτῖνοςLibertînosa Roman freedman
- ἈλεξανδρεύςAlexandreúsan Alexandreian or inhabitant of Alexandria
- ΚιλικίαKilikíaCilicia, a region of Asia Minor
- ΚυρηναῖοςKyrēnaîosi.e. Cyrenæan, i.e. inhabitant of Cyrene
- συζητέωsyzētéōto investigate jointly, i.e. discuss, controvert, cavil
- ἈσίαAsíaAsia, i.e. Asia Minor, or (usually) only its western shore
- συναγωγήsynagōgḗan assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place); by a
- ἀνίστημιanístēmito stand up (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- The Theodotus synagogue inscriptionConfirmed by the groundSynagogues used for scripture reading and teaching, and hosting travellers, existed in first-century Jerusalem — the institutional setting the Gospels and Acts take for granted.