ὁ ho
Meaning
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
In the King James Version: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc
Derivation: the definite article;
Where it is used
- Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
- Acts 7:45 And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
- Acts 7:46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
- Acts 7:48 However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
- Acts 7:49 ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?
- Acts 7:50 Has not My hand made all these things?’
- Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
- Acts 7:53 you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
- Acts 7:54 On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- Acts 7:55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
- Acts 7:56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
- Acts 7:57 At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.
- Acts 7:58 They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- Acts 7:59 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
- Acts 7:60 Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
- Acts 8:1 And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
- Acts 8:2 God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
- Acts 8:3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
- Acts 8:4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
- Acts 8:5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
- Acts 8:6 The crowds all paid close attention to Philip’s message and to the signs they saw him perform.
- Acts 8:7 With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.
- Acts 8:8 So there was great joy in that city.
- Acts 8:9 Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,
- Acts 8:10 and all the people, from the least to the greatest, heeded his words and said, “This man is the divine power called the Great Power.”
- Acts 8:11 They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.
- Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
- Acts 8:13 Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.
- Acts 8:14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
- Acts 8:16 For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Acts 8:17 Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 8:18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.
- Acts 8:19 “Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
- Acts 8:20 But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
- Acts 8:21 You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
- Acts 8:22 Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.
- Acts 8:24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
- Acts 8:25 And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
- Acts 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
- Acts 8:27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
- Acts 8:28 and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.
- Acts 8:29 The Spirit said to Philip, “Go over to that chariot and stay by it.”
- Acts 8:30 So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
- Acts 8:31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
- Acts 8:32 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- Acts 8:33 In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”
- Acts 8:34 “Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”
- Acts 8:35 Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
- Acts 8:36 As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
- Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
- Acts 8:38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
- Acts 8:39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
- Acts 8:40 But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
- Acts 9:1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
- Acts 9:2 and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
- Acts 9:3 As Saul drew near to Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
- Acts 9:4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
- Acts 9:5 “Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.
- Acts 9:6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”