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Acts 2:8

How then do, we, hear each one in our own language in which we were born?

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?
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?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How heare we the euery one his awne tunge, wherin we were borne?
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 Now there were in Jerusalem sojourning Jews, reverent men from every nation who were under heaven; 6 And this sound occurring the throng came together and was thrown into confusion, because each one severally heard in his own language them who were speaking; 7 Yea they were beside themselves and did marvel, saying - Lo! are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans? 8 How then do, we, hear each one in our own language in which we were born? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judaea also and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia also and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of the Libya that is towards Cyrene, and the sojourning Romans, - both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our own tongues the magnificent things of God. 12 But they were all beside themselves and were utterly at a loss, saying one to another - What doth this please to be? 13 While, others, in mockery were saying - With sweet wine, are they drunken!

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
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, on the east, - and put there the man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:24
So he expelled the man, - and caused to dwell - in front of the garden of Eden - cherubim and a brandishing sword - flame, to keep the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and dwelt in the land of Nod, eastward of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered, - before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations, deliver them, whom my fathers destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, - and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were in Telassar?
Isaiah 51:3
For Yahweh hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her waste places, And hath made her wilderness like Eden, And her waste plain like the garden of Yahweh, - Joy and gladness, shall be found in her, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, - Asshur. Chilmad, Were merchants of thine:
Ezekiel 28:13
In Eden the garden of God, thou wast. Of every precious stone, was thy covering-Sardius. topaz, and diamond, Chrysolite beryl, and jasper, Sapphire carbuncle and emerald,- And of gold, was the work of thy timbrels and thy flutes within thee, In the day thou wast created, were they prepared:
Ezekiel 31:16
At the sound of his fall, I made nations tremble, When I caused him to descend into hades, with them who descend into the pit, - Then were grieved in the earth below-All the trees of Eden, The choicest and best of Lebanon All who had drunk the waters.

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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