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Version</a></span><br />for about forty years he endured their conduct in the wilderness;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/acts/13.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />He put up with them through forty years of wandering in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/acts/13.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/acts/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/acts/13.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />and for a period of about forty years He endured their ways in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/acts/13.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/acts/13.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/acts/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/acts/13.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/acts/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And for a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/acts/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And for a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/acts/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years He put up with their behavior in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/acts/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/acts/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />And for about 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/acts/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/acts/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and for about 40 years he took care of them in the desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/acts/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And for about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/acts/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />and he put up with them for about forty years in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/acts/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />and for forty years he endured them in the desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/acts/13.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />After he had put up with them for 40 years in the wilderness, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/acts/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/acts/13.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/acts/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/acts/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/13.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/acts/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/acts/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and about a period of forty years He endured their conduct in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/acts/13.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />and for a period of about forty years He endured their ways in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/acts/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/acts/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And about forty years time he bare them in the desert.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/acts/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/acts/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And throughout a time of forty years, he endured their behavior in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/acts/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />and for about forty years he put up with them in the desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/acts/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/acts/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And he fed them in the wilderness for forty years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/acts/13.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />And he sustained them in the wilderness forty years.<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/acts/13.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />And for about forty years, he cherished them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/acts/13.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />and when he supported them about the time of forty years in the wilderness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/acts/13.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />And about the space of forty years he bore with their behaviour in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/acts/13.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/13.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/acts/13.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />And for about the time of forty years He bore them as a nursing father in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/acts/13.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />And about forty years He bare with their behaviour in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/acts/13-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/in5WTRQ9BSQ?start=4244" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/acts/13.htm">In Pisidian Antioch</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "></a> <a href="/greek/5159.htm" title="5159: etropophorēsen (V-AIA-3S) -- To endure the ways of, put up with. From tropos and phoreo; to endure one's habits.">He endured their conduct</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autous (PPro-AM3P) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons."></a> <a href="/greek/5550.htm" title="5550: chronon (N-AMS) -- A space of time or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay.">for</a> <a href="/greek/5613.htm" title="5613: hōs (Adv) -- Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.">about</a> <a href="/greek/5063.htm" title="5063: tesserakontaetē (Adj-AMS) -- Forty years of age. From tessarakonta and etos; of forty years of age.">forty years</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tē (Art-DFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/2048.htm" title="2048: erēmō (Adj-DFS) -- Lonesome, i.e. waste.">wilderness.</a> </span> <span class="reftext">19</span>And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/16-35.htm">Exodus 16:35</a></span><br />The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33-34</a></span><br />Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. / In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-31.htm">Deuteronomy 1:31</a></span><br />and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-2.htm">Deuteronomy 8:2</a></span><br />Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-5.htm">Deuteronomy 29:5</a></span><br />For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-21.htm">Nehemiah 9:21</a></span><br />For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/95-10.htm">Psalm 95:10</a></span><br />For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/106-13.htm">Psalm 106:13-15</a></span><br />Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. / They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. / So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/78-40.htm">Psalm 78:40-52</a></span><br />How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! / Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. / They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Ezekiel 20:13</a></span><br />Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">1 Corinthians 10:1-5</a></span><br />I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. / They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. / They all ate the same spiritual food ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">Hebrews 3:7-11</a></span><br />Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, / do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-17.htm">Hebrews 3:17</a></span><br />And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/3-9.htm">Hebrews 3:9</a></span><br />where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-8.htm">Hebrews 4:8-9</a></span><br />For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. / There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.</p><p class="hdg">about.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/7-36.htm">Acts 7:36,39-43</a></b></br> He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/16-2.htm">Exodus 16:2,35</a></b></br> And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/14-22.htm">Numbers 14:22,33,34</a></b></br> Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; … </p><p class="hdg">suffered.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/john/19-35.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/john/12-17.htm">Bore</a> <a href="/john/7-51.htm">Conduct</a> <a href="/acts/8-26.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/mark/13-13.htm">Endured</a> <a href="/luke/16-21.htm">Fed</a> <a href="/acts/7-42.htm">Forty</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-12.htm">Manners</a> <a href="/luke/21-23.htm">Nurse</a> <a href="/luke/23-29.htm">Nursed</a> <a href="/numbers/11-12.htm">Nursing-Father</a> <a href="/acts/7-23.htm">Period</a> <a href="/acts/9-16.htm">Suffer</a> <a href="/acts/1-3.htm">Suffered</a> <a href="/acts/13-11.htm">Time</a> <a href="/acts/8-26.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/acts/13-10.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/acts/7-44.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/acts/15-8.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/acts/13-22.htm">Bore</a> <a href="/acts/19-18.htm">Conduct</a> <a href="/acts/21-38.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/romans/9-22.htm">Endured</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/3-2.htm">Fed</a> <a href="/acts/13-21.htm">Forty</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-33.htm">Manners</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-7.htm">Nurse</a> <a href="/exodus/2-9.htm">Nursed</a> <a href="/numbers/11-12.htm">Nursing-Father</a> <a href="/acts/18-20.htm">Period</a> <a href="/acts/13-35.htm">Suffer</a> <a href="/acts/14-16.htm">Suffered</a> <a href="/acts/13-20.htm">Time</a> <a href="/acts/21-38.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/acts/14-16.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/acts/21-38.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Acts 13</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-1.htm">Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-6.htm">Of Sergius Paulus, and Elymas the sorcerer.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-13.htm">Paul preaches at Antioch that Jesus is Christ.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">42. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-42.htm">The Gentiles believe;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">44. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-44.htm">but the Jews talked abusively against Paul, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">46. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-46.htm">whereupon they turn to the Gentiles, of whom many believe.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">50. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/13-50.htm">The Jews raise a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, who go to Iconium.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The number forty is often symbolic in the Bible, representing a period of testing, trial, or probation. In the Greek, the word for "forty" is "τεσσεράκοντα" (tesserakonta), which appears in various contexts throughout Scripture, such as the forty days of rain during the flood (<a href="/genesis/7-12.htm">Genesis 7:12</a>) and Jesus' forty days of fasting (<a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a>). This period was a time of divine discipline and preparation for the Israelites, shaping them into a people ready to enter the Promised Land.<p><b>He endured their conduct</b><br />The Greek word translated as "endured" is "ἐτροποφόρησεν" (etropophorēsen), which can also mean "to bear with" or "to tolerate." This highlights God's patience and long-suffering nature. Despite the Israelites' frequent disobedience and complaints, God remained faithful to His covenant. This endurance is a testament to His grace and mercy, as He continued to guide and provide for them. It serves as a reminder of God's unwavering commitment to His people, even when they falter.<p><b>in the wilderness</b><br />The wilderness, or "ἔρημος" (erēmos) in Greek, is more than just a physical location; it is a place of spiritual significance. Biblically, the wilderness is often a place of testing and transformation. For the Israelites, it was a place where they learned dependence on God, receiving manna from heaven and water from a rock. Historically, the wilderness journey was a formative experience, teaching the Israelites about God's provision and faithfulness. It symbolizes the trials believers face in life, where faith is tested and strengthened.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/acts/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) <span class= "bld">Suffered he their manners.</span>--The Greek word so rendered differs by a single letter only from one which signifies "to nurse, to carry, as a father carries his child." Many of the better MSS. versions and early writers give the latter reading, and it obviously falls in far better with the conciliatory drift of St. Paul's teaching than one which implied reproach. The word is found in the Greek of <a href="/deuteronomy/1-31.htm" title="And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came into this place.">Deuteronomy 1:31</a> ("bare thee, as a man <span class= "ital">doth bear</span> his son"), where also some MSS. give the other word, and suggests the inference, already mentioned, that this chapter, as well as Isaiah 1, had been read as one of the lessons for the day.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="accented">For</span> <span class="accented">about</span> for <span class="accented">about</span>, A.V. <span class="cmt_word">Suffered he their manners</span> (<span class="greek">ἐτροποφόρησεν</span>). This word <span class="greek">τροποφορέω</span>, <span class="accented">to</span> bear or put up with any one's (perverse) manners, is found nowhere else in the New Testament. But in the Cod. Alex. of the LXX. it is the rendering of <a href="/deuteronomy/1-31.htm">Deuteronomy 1:31</a>, instead of <span class="greek">ἐτροφόρησεν</span> he bare or carried, as a nursing father carries his child, which is the read of the Cod. Vat. and of the margin of the R.T. here. The Hebrew <span class="hebrew">נָשָׂא</span> is capable of either sense. From this quotation from Deuteronomy it is conjectured that the <span class="accented">Par-ashah</span> on this occasion was from <a href="/deuteronomy/1.htm">Deuteronomy 1</a>, and if the <span class="greek">ὕψωσεν</span> of ver. 17 is taken from <a href="/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah 1</a>, that would seem to have been the <span class="accented">Haphtorah</span>, and it is curious that <a href="/deuteronomy/1.htm">Deuteronomy 1</a>. and <a href="/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah 1</a>. are read in the synagogues now on the same sabbath (but see note on ver. 17). Forty years is invariably the time assigned to the dwelling in the wilderness (<a href="/exodus/16-35.htm">Exodus 16:35</a>; <a href="/numbers/14-33.htm">Numbers 14:33, 34</a>; <a href="/numbers/32-13.htm">Numbers 32:13</a>; <a href="/numbers/33-38.htm">Numbers 33:38</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/1-3.htm">Deuteronomy 1:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/95-10.htm">Psalm 95:10</a>, etc.). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/acts/13-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">He endured their conduct</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐτροποφόρησεν</span> <span class="translit">(etropophorēsen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5159.htm">Strong's 5159: </a> </span><span class="str2">To endure the ways of, put up with. From tropos and phoreo; to endure one's habits.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="grk">χρόνον</span> <span class="translit">(chronon)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5550.htm">Strong's 5550: </a> </span><span class="str2">A space of time or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">about</span><br /><span class="grk">ὡς</span> <span class="translit">(hōs)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5613.htm">Strong's 5613: </a> </span><span class="str2">Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">forty years</span><br /><span class="grk">τεσσερακονταετῆ</span> <span class="translit">(tesserakontaetē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5063.htm">Strong's 5063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Forty years of age. From tessarakonta and etos; of forty years of age.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the</span><br /><span class="grk">τῇ</span> <span class="translit">(tē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Dative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">wilderness.</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐρήμῳ</span> <span class="translit">(erēmō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2048.htm">Strong's 2048: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lonesome, i.e. waste.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/acts/13-18.htm">Acts 13:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/acts/13-18.htm">NT Apostles: Acts 13:18 For a period of about forty years (Acts of the Apostles Ac) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/acts/13-17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 13:17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 13:17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/acts/13-19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 13:19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 13:19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>