Acts 7 verse 33

Acts 7 verse 33

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.    (KJV)

 And the Lord said unto him, “Untie the sandal from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”        (IB)

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Retranslation:  The Ruler and The Judge, whose decisions are final, whose government is the End, whose Authority is supreme and binding, communicated this meaning:  “Your binding foundation is dissolved! For the condition in which you exist is a world of Reason (meaning of circle, or sacred), where I AM the Premise and the conclusions are all consecrated to Me!”

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Lord 2962 kyrios, from kyros (supremacy); supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication Mister (as a respectful title):----God, Lord, master, Sir.

supreme (1828 Dict. def.): [L. super, has adj. superus, being, or placed, above.]

1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in government or power. In the United States the congress is supreme in regulating commerce and in making war and peace. The parliament of Great Britain is supreme in legislation; but the king is supreme in the administration of the government. In the universe, God only is the supreme ruler and judge. His commands are supreme, and binding on all his creatures.
2. Highest, greatest or most excellent; as supreme love; supreme glory; supreme degree.

authority (ibid.)

1. Legal power, or a right to command or to act; as the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children. Power; rule; sway.

said 2036 epo, a primary verb; to speak or say (by word or in writing):-----answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell. Compare 3004.

bring (ibid.) to cause to come.

word: the thing that communicates meaning. 

Loosen 3089 lyo, a primary verb; to “loosen” (literally or figuratively):-----break (up), destroy, dissolve, loose, unloose, melt, put off. Compare 4486.

4486 rhegnymi or rhesso, both prolonged vorms of rheko (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnymi [see 2608]; to “break”, “wreck” or “crack’, i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of parts; 2608 being its intensive [with the preposition in compound], and 2352 a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like 3089) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication to convulse (with spasms); figuratively to give vent to joyful emotions:----break (forth), burst, rend, tear.

2608 katagnymi, from 2596 and the base of 4486; to rend in pieces, i.e. crack apart:----break.

sandal 5266 hypodema, from 5265; something bound under the feet, i.e. a shoe or sandal:-----shoe.

5265 hypodeo, from 5259 and 1210; to bind under one’s feet, i.e. put on shoes or sandals:---bind on, (be) shod.

feet 4228 pous, a primary word; a “foot” (figuratively or literal):----foot, footstool.

foot (ibid.) 

1. Foundation; condition; state. 

We are not on the same foot with our fellow citizens. In this sense, it is more common, in America, to use footing; and in this sense the plural is not used.

footing (ibid.)

1. Ground for the foot; that which sustains; firm foundation to stand on.

In ascents, every step gained is a footing and help to the next.   Holder.

1. Support; foot.
2. Basis; foundation.
3. Place; stable position.
4. Permanent settlement. 

Let not these evils gain footing.

1. Tread; step; walk.
2. Dance; tread to measure
3. Steps; road; track.
4. State; condition; settlement.

Place both parties on an equal footing.

for 1063 gar, a primary particle; properly assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles):---and, as, because (that), but, even, for, indeed, no doubt, seeing, then, therefore, verily, what, why, yet.

place 5117 topos, apparently a primary word; a spot (generally in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas 5561 is a larger but particular locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively condition, opportunity; specifically a scabbard:----where, room, quarter, plain, place, rock, license, coast.

on 1722 en, a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); “in”, at, on, upon, by, etc. Often used in compounds with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition:-----about, after, against, almost, altogether, among, as, at, before, between, by here by (+ all means), for (. . .sake of), give self wholly to, in, herein, into, inwardly, mightily, (because) of, on, upon, -ly (e.g. openly, speedily), outwardly, one, quickly, shortly, that, there, therein, thereon, through, throughout, to, unto, toward, under, when where, wherewith, while, with, within.

which 3739

stand 2476 histemi, a prolonged form of a primary stao (of the same meaning and used for it in certain tenses); to stand (transitive or intransitive), used in various applications (literally or figuratively):----abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up). Compare 5087.

abide (ibid.): [Aramaic abada, to be or exist, to continue; Welsh bod, to be; Russian vitayu, to dwell, rest, continue, stand firm, or be stationary for any time indefinitely.]

1. To rest, or dwell. Gen. xxix 19.
2. To tarry or stay for a short time. Gen. xxiv. 55.
3. To continue permanently or in the same state; to be firm and immovable. Ps. cxix. 90.
4. To remain, to continue. Acts xxvii. 31. Eccles. viii. 15.

is 2076

holy 40 hagios, from hagos (an awful thing) [compare 53, H2282]; sacred (physically pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially consecrated):----(most) holy (one, thing), saint.

53 hagos, from the same as 40; properly clean, i.e. (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect:-----chaste, clean, pure.

H2282 hag, from H2287; a festival, or a victim therefor:-----feast, feast day, solemn feast, sacrifice, solemnity.

H2287 hagog, a primitive root [compare H2283, H2328; properly to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication to be giddy:-----celebrate, dance, keep a feast, hold a feast, keep a solemn feast, keep holyday, reel to and fro.

H2283 haga, from an unused root meaning to revolve [compare H2287]; properly vertigo, i.e. (figuratively) fear:----terror.

H2328 hug, a primitive root [compare 2287]; to describe a circle:----circle, circuit, compass. 

ground 1093 ge, contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):----country, earth, earthly, ground, land, world.