Acts 2:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγνώρισάς μοι ὁδοὺς ζωῆς· πληρώσεις με εὐφροσύνης μετὰ τοῦ προσώπου σου.

Transliteration

Egnōrisas to me hodous zōēs; plērōseis me euphrosunēs with the prosōpou of you.

Grammar Details

*Egnōrisas*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person singular - you made known
*hodous*: accusative, feminine, plural - ways/paths
*zōēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of life
*plērōseis*: future active indicative, 2nd person singular - you will fill
*euphrosunēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of joy/gladness
*prosōpou*: genitive, neuter, singular - face/presence

Word Meanings

*Egnōrisas*: made known/revealed/showed
*hodous*: ways/paths/roads
*zōēs*: life/existence
*plērōseis*: will fill/make full/complete
*euphrosunēs*: joy/gladness/happiness
*prosōpou*: face/countenance/presence

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 21:6 : 6 For thou makest him most blessed for ever: Thou makest him glad with joy in thy presence.
Ps 16:11 : 11 Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with [beholding] thy form.
Ps 21:4 : 4 He asked life of thee, thou gavest it him, Even length of days for ever and ever.
Ps 4:6-7 : 6 Many there are that say, Who will show us [any] good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than [they have] when their grain and their new wine are increased.
Ps 25:4 : 4 Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths.
Ps 42:5 : 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him [For] the help of his countenance.
Prov 2:19 : 19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
Prov 8:20 : 20 I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; 26 and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?
John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Heb 12:2 : 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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