Acts 22:2
“(And when they heard that hee spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)”
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Acts 22:2 Context
1Men, brethren, and fathers, heare ye my defence which I make now vnto you. 2(And when they heard that hee spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) 3I am verely a man which am a Iew, borne in Tarsus a citie in Cilicia, yet brought vp in this citie at the feete of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect maner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous towards God, as ye all are this day. 4And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prisons both men and women,
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Other Translations for Acts 22:2
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
- King James Version
And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he *said,
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith,
- American Standard Version (1901)
And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said,
- Basic English Bible
And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,
- Darby Bible
(And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
- Webster's Bible
And on hearing him address them in Hebrew, they kept all the more quiet; and he said,
- Weymouth Bible
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
- World English Bible
And whanne sum herden that in Ebrew tunge he spak to hem, thei yauen the more silence.
- Wycliffe Bible
and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for Acts 22:2
Ac 22:2 Spake in the Hebrew tongue to them. The tongue called the Hebrew, a dialect of the ancient Hebrew, and distinguished from it by the name "Aramaic". It was the common language of Judea in the time of Christ. It would be understood by all Paul's Jewish hearers, while many could not understand Greek.