Acts 2:17:35Acts.2.17.W35TAB
πρεσβύτεροι
presbyteroi
“older men”
- Transliteration
- pres-BY-te-roi
- Extended
- prehss-BYH-teh-roi
- IPA
- /presˈby.te.roi/
Meaning by language
- English
- older men
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Beta | v — as in victory | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
pres-BY-te-roi
- sentence
KAI ES-tai en TAIS es-KHA-tais hê-ME-rais LE-gei ho the-OS ek-khe-O a-PO tou pneu-ma-TOS mou e-PI PA-san SAR-ka KAI pro-phê-TEU-sou-sin hoi hy-oi hy-MON KAI hai thy-ga-TE-res hy-MON KAI hoi ne-a-NIS-koi hy-MON ho-RA-seis OP-son-tai KAI hoi pres-BY-te-roi hy-MON e-nyp-NI-ois e-nyp-ni-as-THÊ-son-tai
Exegesis
The final parallel clause, kai hoi presbuteroi humon enupniois enupniasthēsontai {καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ὑμῶν ἐνυπνίοις ἐνυπνιασθήσονται | kaí hoi pres-bý-te-roi hy-môn en-up-ní-ois en-up-ni-as-thḗ-son-tai} “and your elders will dream with dreams,” uses a dative of means or sphere (enupniois “in dreams” or “by dreams”) with the deponent passive verb enupniasthēsontai “they will dream.” The progression sons and daughters → young men → elders creates an inclusive age spectrum and male–female pairing, which the translation preserves by maintaining the repeated “your” and parallel clause structure. Maintaining the future indicative verbs and coordinated clauses in English mirrors the prophetic cadence and highlights that these distributed revelatory gifts are the direct outcome of the promised outpouring of the Spirit.
In context — Acts 2:17
And it will be in the last days, says God , I will pour out from My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy , and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
About this coordinate
Acts 2:17:35 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 35 of Acts 2:17, so the Greek word πρεσβύτεροι (presbyteroi) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.2.17.W35, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.2.17.W35.S1) and character.