Acts 7:51 (KJV)

Words Then and Now

Ghost the spirit; the soul Still heard today: gave up the ghost, breathed out the spirit; now said of anything that quits working Webster’s 1828 · Ghost

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

ye, your more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

Stephen reproves the Jews for the death of ChristStephen was going on, it seems, to show that the temple and the temple service must come to an end, and it would be the glory of both to give way to the...

Thompson Chains

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Exodus 33:5 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus 33:3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
Psalms 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Ezekiel 44:7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel 44:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Acts 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 7:27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Romans 2:28–29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: …
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Deuteronomy 9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
Psalms 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Isaiah 48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Jeremiah 9:25–26 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; …
Jeremiah 17:23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
Ezekiel 2:4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
Matthew 23:31–33 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. …
Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

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Topics

Character Stiff-necked
Court Accused spoke in his own defense
Defense Of Stephen
Government Constitutes, with priests and scribes, a court for the trial of both civil and ecclesiastical causes
Holy spirit General scriptures concerning
Impenitence General scriptures concerning
Jerusalem Stephen martyred at
Persecution Of Stephen
Priest Put on trial, condemn, and stone Stephen
Readings, select Stephen’s defense
Reproof Stephen, of the high priest
Self-will Resisting the Holy Spirit
Solomon Builds the temple
Stephen Defense of

Timeline

Timeline of the BibleAbout AD 34 · Stephen Stoned

Bible Dictionary

GhostAn old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma, both meaning...

Greek and Strong’s

Ye stiffnecked Σκληροτράχηλοι Sklērotrachēloi σκληροτράχηλος Adjective · vocative masculine plural
and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
uncircumcised ἀπερίτμητοι aperitmētoi ἀπερίτμητος Adjective · vocative masculine plural
in heart τῇ tē Article · dative feminine singular καρδίᾳ kardia καρδία Noun · dative feminine singular
and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
ears τοῖς tois Article · dative neuter plural ὠσίν ōsin οὖς Noun · dative neuter plural
ye ὑμεῖς hymeis Pronoun · second person, nominative plural ὑμεῖς hymeîs
do ἀντιπίπτω antipíptō
always ἀεὶ aei ἀεί Adverb
resist ἀντιπίπτετε antipiptete ἀντιπίπτω Verb · present active indicative, second person plural
the Holy τῷ tō Article · dative neuter singular Ἁγίῳ Hagiō ἅγιος Adjective · dative neuter singular
Ghost τῷ tō Article · dative neuter singular Πνεύματι Pneumati πνεῦμα Noun · dative neuter singular
as ὡς hōs ὡς Conjunction
your ὑμῶν hymōn Pronoun · second person, genitive plural ὑμῶν hymōn
fathers οἱ hoi Article · nominative masculine plural πατέρες pateres πατήρ Noun · nominative masculine plural
so καὶ kai καί Adverb
ye ὑμεῖς hymeis Pronoun · second person, nominative plural ὑμεῖς hymeîs

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