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Myles Coverdale Bible

Acts 2:8

How heare we the euery one his awne tunge, wherin we were borne?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Feasts;   Language;   Orator;   Prophecy;   Readings, Select;   Revivals;   Testimony;   Tongue;   Scofield Reference Index - Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Holy Spirit;   Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Tongues;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Emblems of the Holy Spirit, the;   Feasts, the Anniversary;   Language;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ascension;   Babel;   Language;   Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tongues;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptism of the Holy Spirit;   Forgiveness;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Baptism ;   Gift of Tongues;   Hearing the Word of God;   Holy Ghost;   Worship of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Black People and Biblical Perspectives;   Church;   Community of Goods;   Pilgrimage;   Spiritual Gifts;   Worship;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Communion;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Pentecost, Feast of;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Tongues, Gift of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood of Jesus;   Fire;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Proverbs ;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Tongue ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ascension;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Language;   Pentecost;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah;   Pentecost;   Peter;   Tongues;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Twelve Apostles, the;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - How;   Tongue;   Tongues, Gift of;   Tongues of Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bible Translations;   Jerusalem;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How is it that each of us can hear them in our own native language?
King James Version (1611)
And how heare we euery man in our owne tongue, wherein we were borne?
King James Version
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
English Standard Version
And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
New American Standard Bible
"And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
New Century Version
Then how is it possible that we each hear them in our own languages? We are from different places:
Amplified Bible
"Then how is it that each of us hears in our own language or native dialect?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
Legacy Standard Bible
And how is it that we each hear them in our own language in which we were born?
Berean Standard Bible
How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
Contemporary English Version
Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages?
Complete Jewish Bible
How is it that we hear them speaking in our native languages?
Darby Translation
and how do *we* hear [them] each in our own dialect in which we have been born,
Easy-to-Read Version
But we hear them in our own languages. How is this possible? We are from all these different places:
Geneva Bible (1587)
How then heare we euery man our owne language, wherein we were borne?
George Lamsa Translation
How is it that we hear every man in our own native language?
Good News Translation
How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?
Lexham English Bible
And how do we hear, each one of us, in our own native language?
Literal Translation
And how do we hear each in our own dialect in which we were born,
American Standard Version
And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?
Bible in Basic English
And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?
Hebrew Names Version
How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
International Standard Version
So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language?in our language in which we were born
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Etheridge Translation
How hear we (then) each in his own tongue in which we were born?
Murdock Translation
And how do we hear, each his own language, in which we were born?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And howe heare we euery man his owne tongue, wherin we were borne?
English Revised Version
And how hear we, every man in our own language, wherein we were born?
World English Bible
How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And how hear we every one, in our own native language?
Weymouth's New Testament
How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and hou herden we ech man his langage in which we ben borun?
Update Bible Version
And how do we hear every man in our own language wherein we were born?
Webster's Bible Translation
And how do we hear every man in our own language, wherein we were born?
New English Translation
And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?
New King James Version
And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?
New Living Translation
and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages!
New Life Bible
How is it that each one of us can hear his own language?
New Revised Standard
And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How then do, we, hear each one in our own language in which we were born?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born?
Revised Standard Version
And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And how heare we every man his awne touge wherein we were boren?
Young's Literal Translation
and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?
Mace New Testament (1729)
how comes it then that we hear every man talking in our own native tongue?
Simplified Cowboy Version
How can they speak our languages?

Contextual Overview

5 There were dwellinge at Ierusalem Iewes, men that feared God, out of euery nacion that is vnder heauen. 6 Now whan this voyce came to passe, the multitude came together, and were astonyed: For euery one herde, that they spake with his awne tunge. 7 They wondred all and marueyled, and sayde amonge them selues: Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile? 8 How heare we the euery one his awne tunge, wherin we were borne? 9 Parthians and Medes, and Elamites, and we that dwell in Mesopotamia, and in Iewry and Capadocia, Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrigia and Pamphilia, Egipte, and in the partes of Lybia by Cyren, and straungers of Rome, Iewes and Proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians: we heare them speake with oure awne tunges the greate workes of God. 12 They were all amased, and wondred, and sayde one to another: What wil this be? 13 But other mocked them, and sayde: They are full of swete wyne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 10:11 - What is this Psalms 145:12 - make known 1 Corinthians 12:28 - diversities

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
The LORDE God also planted a garde of pleasure in Eden, towarde ye east, and set man therin whom he had made.
Genesis 2:9
And the LORDE God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasaut to loke vpo, and good to eate: and the tre of life in the myddest of the garden, and the tre of knowlege of good and euell.
Genesis 3:24
And he cast Adam out. And before the garden of Eden he set Cherubes, and a naked fyrie swerde, to kepe ye waye vnto the tre of life.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain wente out from ye face of the LORDE, and dwelt in the lande Nod, vpon the east syde of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
Then Lot lift vp his eyes, and behelde all the countre rounde aboute Iorda, that it was a plenteous countre of water. For before the LORDE destroyed Sodoma and Gomorra, it was rounde aboute Zoar, euen as the pleasaunt garden of the LORDE, and as the londe of Egipte.
2 Kings 19:12
Haue ye goddes of ye Heithen delyuered the, whom my father destroyed, as Gosan, Haran, Reseph, & the childre of Eden which were at Thalassar?
Isaiah 51:3
how the LORDE conforted Sio, and repayred all hir decaye: makinge hir deserte as a Paradise, and hir wildernesse as the garden of the LORDE. Myrth and ioye was there, thankesgeuynge and ye voyce of prayse.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Chene and Eden, the marchauntes off Saba, Assiria and Chelmad, were all doers with ye
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast bene in ye pleasaut garde off God: thou art decte with all maner of precious stones: with Ruby, Topas, Christall, Iacyncte, Onyx, Iaspis, Saphir, Smaragde, Carbucle, & golde. Thy beuty & ye holes yt be in ye were set forth in the daye of yi creacion.
Ezekiel 31:16
I wil make the Heithen shake at the sounde of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell, with them yt descende in to the pytte. All the trees of Eden, wt all the chosen and best trees of Libanus, yee and all they that are planted vpon the waters, shal mourne with him also in the lower habitacios:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And how hear we every man in our own tongue,.... Them speaking, as the Ethiopic version reads; that is, we everyone of us hear one or another, speak in the same language,

wherein we were born; our native language; for though these men were Jews by descent, yet were born and brought up in other countries, which language they spake; and not the Hebrew, or Syriac, or Chaldee.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherein we were born - That is, as we say, in our native language; what is spoken where we were born.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 2:8. How hear we every man in our own tongue — Some have supposed from this that the miracle was not so much wrought on the disciples as on their hearers: imagining that, although the disciples spoke their own tongue, yet every man so understood what was spoken as if it had been spoken in the language in which he was born. Though this is by no means so likely as the opinion which states that the disciples themselves spoke all these different languages, yet the miracle is the same, howsoever it be taken; for it must require as much of the miraculous power of God to enable an Arab to understand a Galilean, as to enable a Galilean to speak Arabic. But that the gift of tongues was actually given to the apostles, we have the fullest proof; as we find particular ordinances laid down by those very apostles for the regulation of the exercise of this gift; see 1 Corinthians 14:1, &c.


 
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