Acts 21:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

There we found some disciples and stayed with them for seven days. Through the Spirit, they kept urging Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἀνευρόντες μαθητάς, ἐπεμείναμεν αὐτοῦ ἡμέρας ἑπτά: οἵτινες τῷ Παύλῳ ἔλεγον διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος, μὴ ἀναβαίνειν εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ.

Transliteration

And aneurontes mathētas, we epemeinamen there hēmeras seven: who to Paulō elegon through the Pneumatos, not to anabainein to Hierousalēm.

Grammar Details

• *aneurontes*: aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine - having found/discovered
• *mathētas*: accusative plural masculine - disciples
• *epemeinamen*: aorist active indicative, 1st plural - we remained/stayed
• *hēmeras*: accusative plural feminine - days
• *Paulō*: dative singular masculine - to Paul
• *elegon*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd plural - they were saying
• *Pneumatos*: genitive singular neuter - Spirit
• *anabainein*: present active infinitive - to go up
• *Hierousalēm*: accusative singular feminine - Jerusalem

Word Meanings

• *aneurontes*: finding/searching out and finding/discovering
• *mathētas*: disciples/learners/followers
• *epemeinamen*: we remained/we stayed/we continued
• *elegon*: they were saying/they kept telling/they were instructing
• *anabainein*: to go up/to ascend/to journey to

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go to Jerusalem.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And when we had founde brethren we taryed there.vii. dayes. And they tolde Paul thorowe ye sprete that he shuld not goo vp to Ierusalem.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And whan we had founde disciples, we taried there seuen dayes. And they tolde Paul thorow the sprete, that he shulde not go vp to Ierusalem.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And when we had found disciples, we taried there seuen dayes; they told Paul through the Spirit, that he should not goe vp to Hierusalem.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And when we had founde disciples, we taryed there seuen dayes: who said to Paule through the spirite, that he shoulde not go vp to Hierusalem.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And having found out the disciples, we tarried there seven days, and they said to Paul, through the Spirit, not to go up to Jerusalem;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 10:11 : 11 When you enter any town or village, find out who is worthy and stay there until you leave.
• Acts 11:26 : 26 When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year, they met with the church and taught a large number of people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
• Acts 19:1 : 1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
• Acts 20:6-7 : 6 But we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we joined them at Troas, where we stayed seven days. 7 On the first day of the week, we were gathered together to break bread, and Paul began to speak to them. Since he was planning to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight.
• Acts 20:22-23 : 22 'And now, behold, I am bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.' 23 'Except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that chains and afflictions await me.'
• Acts 21:10-12 : 10 After we had stayed there for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 He came to us, took Paul’s belt, and tied his own hands and feet with it. He said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘This is how the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’” 12 When we heard this, we and the local believers pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.
• Acts 28:14 : 14 There we found some fellow believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.
• 2 Tim 1:17 : 17 On the contrary, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently for me and found me.
• Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard a loud voice behind me, like a trumpet,