Acts 18:1–3
Paul joins Aquila and Priscilla, tentmakers like himself
Study it word by word1After these things he departed from Athens and came to Corinth.
2And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who had recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome; and he went to them,
3and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for they were tentmakers by trade.
In its context
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4And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
5And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was wholly occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.
Its words in the original
- χωρισθεὶςchōristheis· separate
Separate; in the passive, depart, leave.
- ἈθηνῶνAthēnōn· Athens
Athens, the great city of Greece.
- ἦλθενēlthen· come, go
Come, arrive; go.
- ΚόρινθονKorinthon· Corinth
Corinth, a great trading city of Greece and the capital of the province of Achaia, on the isthmus that joins the Peloponnese to the mainland.
- εὑρώνheurōn· find
Find; in the passive, turn out to be, be found to be so.
- ἸουδαῖονIoudaion· Jew, Judean
Jew, Judean: one of the people of Judah; in the New Testament it often means the leaders of the people.
- ὀνόματιonomati· name
Name. In the Bible, a name stands for the person himself.
- ἈκύλανAkylan· Aquila
Aquila: a Jew from Pontus, a tentmaker, husband of Priscilla and co-worker of Paul.
- ΠοντικὸνPontikon· native of Pontus
A native of Pontus, the region on the Black Sea in the north of Asia Minor.
- γένειgenei· kind, race
Kind, sort; also family, descendants, a people.
- προσφάτωςprosphatōs· recently
Recently, not long ago.
- ἸταλίαςItalias· Italy
Italy, the peninsula whose capital was Rome.
- ΠρίσκιλλανPriskillan· Priscilla
Priscilla, the wife of Aquila and a coworker of Paul; also called Prisca.
- γυναῖκαgynaika· woman, wife
Woman; with a possessive, wife.
- διατεταχέναιdiatetachenai· instruct, arrange
Give instructions, order, arrange, appoint.
- ΚλαύδιονKlaudion· Claudius
Claudius, the name of the Roman emperor from AD 41 to 54, and of the commander Claudius Lysias in Jerusalem.
- ῬώμηςRhōmēs· Rome
Rome: the capital of the Roman Empire.
- προσῆλθενprosēlthen· come to, approach
Come up to, approach someone.
- ὁμότεχνονhomotechnon· of the same trade
Of the same trade, working at the same craft as another.
- εἶναιeinai· be
Be, exist.
- ἔμενενemenen· remain
Stay, remain.
- ἠργάζετοērgazeto· work
Work, do, carry out.
- σκηνοποιοὶskēnopoioi· tentmaker
Tentmaker: one who makes tents, often of leather or goat-hair cloth.
- τέχνῃtechnēi· craft, art
Craft, trade, art.