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Acts 10:10

He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Catholicity;   Dream;   Joppa;   Missions;   Parables;   Peter;   Trance;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hunger;   Trances;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caesarea;   Centurion;   Clean and Unclean;   Peter;   Trance;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Guidance;   Peter;   Simon;   Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Clean;   Trance;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Army;   Trance;   Zacchaeus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Church;   Clean, Cleanness;   Joppa;   Leprosy;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Simon;   Trance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Caesarea;   Chronology of the New Testament;   Joppa;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Trance;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Amazement;   Holiness Purity;   Hypocrisy ;   Joppa ;   Law;   Rapture Ecstasy;   Restoration;   Resurrection of Christ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cornelius ;   Joppa ;   Trance;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Caesarea;   Proselyte;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;   Peter;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Trance;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beside;   Have;   Trance;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Simon Cephas;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for July 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he fell into a trance.
King James Version (1611)
And he became very hungry, and would haue eaten: But while they made ready, he fell into a traunce,
King James Version
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
English Standard Version
And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
New American Standard Bible
But he became hungry and wanted to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
New Century Version
He was hungry and wanted to eat, but while the food was being prepared, he had a vision.
Amplified Bible
but he became hungry and wanted something to eat. While the meal was being prepared he fell into a trance;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
Legacy Standard Bible
But he became hungry and was desiring to eat. And while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance
Berean Standard Bible
He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
Contemporary English Version
and became very hungry. While the food was being prepared, he fell sound asleep and had a vision.
Complete Jewish Bible
He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance
Darby Translation
And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:
Easy-to-Read Version
He was hungry and wanted to eat. But while they were preparing the food for Peter to eat, he had a vision.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then waxed hee an hungred, and would haue eaten: but while they made some thing ready, he fell into a trance.
George Lamsa Translation
And he became hungry, and wanted to eat: but while they were preparing food for him, he was seized with a sudden faintness.
Good News Translation
He became hungry and wanted something to eat; while the food was being prepared, he had a vision.
Lexham English Bible
And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But while they were preparing the food, a trance came over him.
Literal Translation
And he became hungry and wished to taste food . But as they were preparing, an ecstasy fell on him.
American Standard Version
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;
Bible in Basic English
And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him;
Hebrew Names Version
He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
International Standard Version
He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the foodit
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Etheridge Translation
And he hungered, and desired to eat: and while they were preparing for him, there fell upon him an entrancement,
Murdock Translation
And he became hungry, and desired to eat. And while they were providing for him, he fell into a trance.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whe he waxed hungry, he would haue eaten: But whyle they made redie, he fell into a traunce.
English Revised Version
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;
World English Bible
He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
Weymouth's New Testament
He had become unusually hungry and wished for food; but, while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he was hungrid, he wolde haue ete. But while thei maden redi, a rauysching of spirit felde on hym;
Update Bible Version
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;
Webster's Bible Translation
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
New English Translation
He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.
New King James Version
Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance
New Living Translation
and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.
New Life Bible
He became very hungry and wanted something to eat. While they were getting food ready to eat, he saw in a dream things God wanted him to see.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But he became hungry, and wished to eat, - and, while they were making ready, there came upon him a trance;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And being hungry, he was desirous to taste somewhat. And as they were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind.
Revised Standard Version
And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then wexed he an hongred and wolde have eate. But whyll they made redy. He fell into a trauce
Young's Literal Translation
and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan he was hogrie, he wolde haue eate. But whyle they made ready for him, he fell into a traunce,
Mace New Testament (1729)
and being seiz'd with hunger, he would have had something to eat: but while they were making it ready, he fell into a trance,
Simplified Cowboy Version
he was getting hungry. Food was being prepared in the kitchen and Pete suddenly fell into a trance.

Contextual Overview

9 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners. 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 Then he heard a voice saying, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat." 14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean." 15 The voice said to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not call profane." 16 This happened three times, and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven. 17 Now while Peter was greatly puzzled about what to make of the vision that he had seen, suddenly the men sent by Cornelius appeared. They were asking for Simon's house and were standing by the gate. 18 They called out to ask whether Simon, who was called Peter, was staying there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he became: Matthew 4:2, Matthew 12:1-3, Matthew 21:18

he fell: Acts 22:17, Numbers 24:4, Numbers 24:16, Ezekiel 8:1-3, Ezekiel 11:24, Ezekiel 40:2, 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, Revelation 1:10, Revelation 4:2, Revelation 4:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:1 - in Leviticus 11:8 - they are unclean 1 Kings 17:21 - stretched himself Acts 10:13 - Rise Acts 16:9 - a vision

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:9
Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 14:1
In the days of King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim,
Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Isaiah 11:11
On that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
Isaiah 39:1
At that time King Merodach-baladan son of Baladan of Babylon sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
Jeremiah 50:21
Go up to the land of Merathaim; go up against her, and attack the inhabitants of Pekod and utterly destroy the last of them, says the Lord ; do all that I have commanded you.
Daniel 1:2
The Lord let King Jehoiakim of Judah fall into his power, as well as some of the vessels of the house of God. These he brought to the land of Shinar, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his gods.
Amos 6:2
Cross over to Calneh, and see; from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is your territory greater than their territory,
Micah 4:10
Writhe and groan, O daughter Zion, like a woman in labor; for now you shall go forth from the city and camp in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the Lord will redeem you from the hands of your enemies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he became very hungry,.... It being in the middle of the day, when it was usual to eat; and perhaps he had ate nothing that day, for those were reckoned the most religious persons, who eat nothing before the Minchah:

and would have eaten; though the Jews say e, a man ought not to eat near the Minchah, not even the least, lest he should continue at it, and so neglect his prayers:

but while they made ready, while Simon's family were getting dinner ready, preparing the food for it:

he fell into a trance; or an ecstasy, or an ecstasy fell upon him; it was what was supernatural, and came from above, and did not arise from any natural cause in him; he was as it were out of the body, and entirely in the spirit; all the bodily organs and senses were shut up, and all sensible objects removed from him; and he was wholly intent on what was proposed to him in the vision, which filled him with wonder and astonishment.

e Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Sabbat. ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he became very hungry - Prom the connection, where it is said that they were making ready, that is, preparing a meal, it would seem that this was the customary hour of dining. The Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, however, had but two meals, and the first was usually taken about ten or eleven o’clock. This meal usually consisted of fruit, milk, cheese, etc. Their principal meal was about six or seven in the afternoon, at which time they observed their feasts. See Jahn’s Bible. Archaeol. section 145.

He fell into a trance - Greek: an ecstasy, ἔκστασις ekstasis, fell upon him. In Acts 11:5, Peter says that in a trance he saw a vision. The word “trance, or ecstasy,” denotes “a state of mind when the attention is absorbed in a particular train of thought, so that the external senses are partially or entirely suspended.” It is a high species of abstraction from external objects, when the mind becomes forgetful of surrounding things, and is fixed solely on its own thoughts, so that appeals to the external senses do not readily rouse it. The soul seems to have passed out of the body, and to be conversant only with spiritual essences. Thus, Balaam is said to have seen the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance Numbers 24:4, Numbers 24:16; thus Paul, in praying in the temple, fell into a trance Acts 22:17; and perhaps a similar state is described in 2 Corinthians 12:2. This effect seems to be caused by so intense and absorbing a train of thought as to overcome the senses of the body, or wholly to withdraw the mind from their influence, and to fix it on the unseen object that engrosses it. It is often a high state of reverie, or absence of mind, which Dr. Rush describes as “induced by the stimulus of ideas of absent subjects, being so powerful as to destroy the perception of present objects” (Diseases of the Mind, p. 310, ed. Philadelphia, 1812). In the case of Peter, however, there was a supernatural influence that drew his attention away from present objects.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 10:10. He became very hungry — It seems that this happened about dinner-time; for it appears that they were making ready, παρασκευαζοντων, dressing the victuals for the family. The dinner among the ancients was a very slight meal; and they had no breakfast: their supper was their principal meal. And, in very ancient times, they ate only once in the day. Supper was the meal at which they saw their friends, the business of the day being then finished.

He fell into a trance — επεπεσεν επ αυτον εκστασις, An ecstasy fell upon him. A person may be said to be in an ecstasy when transported with joy or admiration, so that he is insensible to every object but that on which he is engaged. Peter's ecstasy is easily accounted for: he went up to the house-top to pray: at first he felt keen hunger; but, being earnestly engaged with God, all natural appetites became absorbed in the intense application of his soul to his Maker. While every passion and appetite was under this Divine influence, and the soul, without let or hinderance, freely conversing with God, then the visionary and symbolical representation mentioned here took place.


 
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