Acts
Acts 8:36
36As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”c
Footnotes
- c 8:36 TR includes 37And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may be baptized.” The eunuch replied, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
Word by word
Each English word or phrase beside the Greek it translates, in the order of the English. Choose a number to open that word’s study.
| English | Greek | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| As | Ὡς | Hōs | Adverb | G5613 as, like as, how, while, so that |
| they traveled | ἐπορεύοντο | eporeuonto | Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural | G4198 I travel, journey, go |
| along | κατὰ | kata | Preposition | G2596 down from, against, according to, throughout, during |
| the | τὴν | tēn | Article - Accusative Feminine Singular | G3588 the |
| road | ὁδόν | hodon | Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular | G3598 a way, road, journey |
| came | ἦλθον | ēlthon | Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural | G2064 I come, go |
| to | ἐπί | epi | Preposition | G1909 on, to, against, on the basis of, at |
| some | τι | ti | Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular | G5100 any one, some one |
| water | ὕδωρ | hydōr | Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular | G5204 water |
| the | ὁ | ho | Article - Nominative Masculine Singular | G3588 the |
| eunuch | εὐνοῦχος | eunouchos | Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular | G2135 a eunuch, keeper of the bed-chamber |
| said | φησιν | phēsin | Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular | G5346 I say |
| Look | Ἰδοὺ | Idou | Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular | G2400 See! Lo! Behold! Look! |
| water | ὕδωρ | hydōr | Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular | G5204 water |
| What | τί | ti | Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular | G5101 who, which, what |
| is | κωλύει | kōlyei | Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular | G2967 I prevent, hinder |
| me | με | me | Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular | G1473 I |
| being baptized | βαπτισθῆναι | baptisthēnai | Verb - Aorist Infinitive Passive | G907 I dip, submerge, baptize |
Cross-references
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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.