20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
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Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Acts 17:20. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
Panels
4
Word Entries
55
Editorial Notes
0
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Greek Textus Receptus
Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain
Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Ξενίζοντα γάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν· βουλόμεθα οὖν γνῶναι, τί ἂν θέλοι ταῦτα εἶναι —
16 word entries
Ξενίζοντα
γάρ
τινα
εἰσφέρεις
εἰς
τὰς
ἀκοὰς
ἡμῶν
βουλόμεθα
οὖν
γνῶναι
τί
ἂν
θέλοι
ταῦτα
Tischendorf / Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament
Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
ξενίζοντα γάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν· βουλόμεθα οὖν γνῶναι τίνα θέλει ταῦτα εἶναι.
15 word entries
τὰς
Syriac Peshitta New Testament
Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܡܠܐ ܓܝܪ ܢܘܟܪܝܬܐ ܙܪܥ ܐܢܬ ܒܡܫܡܥܬܢ ܘܨܒܝܢܢ ܠܡܕܥ ܡܢܐ ܐܢܝܢ ܗܠܝܢ
11 word entries
ܡܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܠܐ
- Transliteration
- ml'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 72
ܓܝܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܓܝܪ
- Transliteration
- gyr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1085
ܢܘܟܪܝܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܘܟܪܝܬܐ
- Transliteration
- nwkryt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 3
ܙܪܥ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܙܪܥ
- Transliteration
- zr'
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 9
ܐܢܬ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܐܢܬ
- Transliteration
- ant
- Morphology
- personal pronoun, second singular
- Gloss
- you
- Occurrences
- 491
ܒܡܫܡܥܬܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܡܫܡܥܬܢ
- Transliteration
- bmshm'tn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 1
ܘܨܒܝܢܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܨܒܝܢܢ
- Transliteration
- wsbynn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2
ܠܡܕܥ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܡܕܥ
- Transliteration
- lmd'
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 14
ܡܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܢܐ
- Transliteration
- mn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 257
ܐܢܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܢܝܢ
- Transliteration
- 'nyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 64
ܗܠܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܗܠܝܢ
- Transliteration
- hlyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 451
Latin Vulgate Clementine
Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
nova enim quædam infers auribus nostris: volumus ergo scire quidnam velint hæc esse.
13 word entries
nova
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nouus
- Transliteration
- nova
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 312
enim
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- enim
- Transliteration
- enim
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2392
quaedam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quidam
- Transliteration
- quaedam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 306
infers
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- infero
- Transliteration
- infers
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 99
auribus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- auris
- Transliteration
- auribus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 212
nostris
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- noster
- Transliteration
- nostris
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1263
volumus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uolo
- Transliteration
- volumus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 538
ergo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ergo
- Transliteration
- ergo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1237
scire
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- scio
- Transliteration
- scire
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 693
quidnam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quisnam
- Transliteration
- quidnam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 22
velint
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uolo
- Transliteration
- velint
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 538
haec
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- hic
- Transliteration
- haec
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 4646
esse
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- esse
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
5 relevance votesHosea 8:12
I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.
5 relevance votes1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
5 relevance votes1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
4 relevance votes1 Peter 4:4
They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
4 relevance votesActs 2:12
They were all amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
2 relevance votesHebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
2 relevance votesJohn 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
2 relevance votesMark 9:10
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.
2 relevance votesActs 10:17
Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood before the gate,
2 relevance votes