Acts 16 verse 1-3

ACTS 16 verses 1 - 3

(1)   And he [Paul] came down to Derbe and Lystra.  And behold, a certain disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a certain believing Jewish woman------but his father was Greek.

(2)    This one being testified of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

(3)   Paul desired this one to go forth with him, and taking him he circumcised him, because of the Jews being in those places------for they all knew his father, that he was a Greek.

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Retranslation (1):  The one in whom mortal appearance has been seen to be a lie, and in whom mortal reasoning and speaking is restrained, comes down to those (remaining in mortal bonds) in Asia Minor. 

Look and learn! A pupil is there whose character is dear to God. He had paid down his debt through the sacrifice of false belief in himself as a mind in opposition to God, the ONLY Mind. He now has spiritual dominion and is a prince of peace (heaven) with spiritual power. No longer full of pride, he is an empty vessel, of use to our Father, precious and esteemed. 

He is the son of a trustworthy consecrated woman who has assented to and obeys the Truth, but his father did not know the Truth.

Retranslation (3):  Paul, the one who has seen the Truth, and thus in whom mortal existence is seen to be a lie, and who now restrains himself from speaking mortal lies, delights in Timothy (in things precious to God!), who also restrains himself from mortal speaking, having somewhat paid his debt to God, and thus is of use to God, and precious to God; and Paul chooses Timothy to associate with as he spreads abroad God’s meaning.

Paul spiritually assays Timothy, completely piercing through the veil of mortal mind, because of the (non-spiritual) condition of the Jews who all believed Timothy’s father was a non-Jew.

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Paul 3972 Paulos, of Latin origin; (little; but remotely from a derivative of 3973, meaning the same); Paulus, the name of a Roman and of an apostle:---Paul, Paulus.

3973 pauo, a primary verb; (“pause”); to stop (transitive or intransitive), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end:-----cease, leave, refrain.

came down 2658 katantao, from 2596 and a derivative of 473; to meet against, i.e. arrive at (literally or figuratively):-----attain, come.

to 1519

Derbe 1191 of foreign origin; a place in Asia Minor.

Lystra 3082 of foreign origin; a place in Asia Minor.

behold 2400 idou, second person singular imperfect middle of 1492; used as imperative lo!:----- behold, lo, see.

certain 5100

disciple 3101 mathetes, from 3129; a learner, i.e. pupil:-----disciple.

3129 manthano, prolonged from a primary verb, another form of which matheo is used as an alternate in certain tenses; to learn (in any way):----learn, understand.

was 2258

there 1563

named 3686  onoma, from a presumed derivative of the base of 1097 (compare 3685); a “name” (literal or figurative)[authority, character]:----called, name, named, surnamed.

3685 oninemi, a prolonged form of an apparent primary verb onomai to slur; for which another onao is used as an alternate in some tenses [unless indeed it be identical with the base of 3686; through the idea of notoriety]; to gratify, i.e. (middle) to derive pleasure or advantage from:-----have joy.

1097 ginosko, a prolonged form of a primary verb; to “know” (absolutely), in a great variety of applications and with many by implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed):-----allow, be aware (of), feel, know, have knowledge, perceive, resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.

Timothy 5095 Timotheos, from 5092 and 2316; dear to God; Timotheus, a Christian:----Timotheus, Timothy.

5092 time, from 5099; a value, i.e. money or paid, or (concretely and collectively) valuables; by analogy esteem (especially of the highest degree), or the dignity itself:----honour, precious, price, some.

5099 tino, strengthened for a primary tio (which is only used as an alternate in certain tenses); to pay a price, i.e. as a penalty:----to be punished with.

Does Timothy’s name mean “to pay a price”?

Is Timothy a “value” or a “valuable”?

Is Timothy “esteemed” or the “dignity”?

Is Timothy “precious”?

Timothy:-----”value, i.e. money or paid”

value (Origins Dict.) 

1. valere, to be strong, hence well.

ON valda, to govern, (vi) have power.

Tokh walo, a (great) chief, a prince.

OP waldnikans, kings.

OIr flaith, dominion (exercised power), sovereignty, a chief, a prince.

Ga flath, chief, prince.

Cor gallos, power.

OE welden, have power over.

E to wield.

value n. (1828 Dict. def.):

1. Worth; that property or properties of a thing which render it useful or estimable; or the degree of that property or of such properties. The real value of a thing is its utility, its power or capacity of procuring or producing good. 
2. Price; the rate of worth set upon a commodity, or the amount for which a thing is sold. We say the value of a thing is what it will bring in the market.
3. Worth; applied to persons. “Ye are all physicians of no value.” Job xiii. “Ye are of more value than many sparrows.”  Matt. x.
4. High rate. “Cesar is well acquainted with your virtue, and therefore sets this value on your life.” Addison.
5. Importance; efficacy in producing effects; as considerations of no value.
6. Import; precise signification; as the value of a word or phrase.

value v.t. (ibid.)

1. To estimate the worth of; to rate at a certain price; to apprize; as, to value lands or goods.
2. To rate at a high price; to have in high esteem; as a valued poem or picture. A man is apt to value his own performances at too high a rate; he is even disposed to value himself for his humility.
3. To esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; as, to value one for his works or virtues.
4. To take account of. The mind doth value every moment. Bacon.
5. To reckon or estimate with respect to number or power.
6. To consider with respect to importance.
7. To raise to estimation. 
8. To be worth.

esteem (ibid.):

1. To set a value on, whether high or low; to estimate; to value.  “Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.” Deut. xxxii.  “They that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.” 1 Sam ii.
2. To prize; to set a high value on; to regard with reverence, respect or friendship. When our minds are not biased, we always esteem the industrious, the generous, the brave, the virtuous, and the learned. “Will he esteem thy riches?” Job. xxxvi.
3. To hold in opinion; to repute; to think. “One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike.” Rom. xiv.
4. To compare in value; to estimate by proportion.

son 5207 huios, apparently a primary word; a “son” (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figurative kinship:-----child, foal, son.

certain 5100  tis, an enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object:----a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (thing), ought, partly, some (man), somebody, something, somewhat, thing, that nothing, what, whatsoever, wherewith, whom, whomsoever, whose, whosesoever.

faithful 4103  pistos, from 3982; objectively trustworthy; subjectively trustful:-----believe, believing, believer, faithful, faithfully, sure, true.

3982 peitho, a primary verb; to convince (by argument true or false); by analogy to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexive or passive to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty):-----agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) confident, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield.

Jewish 2453  Ioudaios, from 2448 (in the sense of 2455 as a country); Judaean, i.e. belonging to Jehudah:----Jew, Jewess, of Judaea.

2448 Iouda of Hebrew origin [H3063 or perhaps H3194]; Judah (Jehudah or Juttah), a part of (or place in) Palestine:-----Judah.

2455 Ioudas of Hebrew origin [H3063]; Judas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region:---Juda, Judah, Judas, Jude.

H3194 yutta, or yuta, from H5186; extended; Juttah (or Jutah), a place in Palestine:-----Juttah.

H5186 nata, a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications (as follows):-----afternoon, apply, bow, bow down, bowing, carry aside, decline, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch forth, stretch out, take, take aside, turn, turn aside, turn away, wrest, cause to yield.

H3063 yehuda, from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory:---Judah.

H3034 yada, a primitive root; used only as denominative from H3027; literally to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively to bemoan (by wringing the hands):----cast, cast out, confess, make confession, praise, shoot, thank, give thanks, be thankful, thanksgiving.

H3027 yad, a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as a noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]:----be able, about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, bounty, broad, brokenhanded, by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, enough, fellowship, force, from, hand, handstaves, handy work, he himself, in, labour, large, ledge, lefthanded, means, mine, ministry, near, of, order, ordinance, our, parts, pain, power, presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, thee, by them, themselves, thine own, thou, through, throwing, thumb, times, to, under, us, wait on, side, wayside, where, wide, with, with him, with me, with you, work, yield, yourselves.

celebrate v.t. (1828 Dict. def.): 

1. To praise; to extol; to commend; to give praise to; to make famous; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.  “The grave cannot celebrate thee.” Is. xxxviii.
2. To distinguish by solemn rites; to keep holy. “From even to even shall ye celebrate your sabbath.” Lev. xxiii.
3. To honor or distinguish by ceremonies and marks of joy and respect; as, to celebrate the birth day of Washington; to celebrate a marriage.
4. To mention in a solemn manner, whether of joy or sorrow.

woman 1135  gyne, probably from the base of 1096; a woman; specifically a wife:----woman, wife.

1096 ginomai, a prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate). i.e. (reflexive) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.):-----arise, be assembled, be, become, befall, behave self, be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, God forbid, grow happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

father 3962  pater, apparently a primary word; a “father” (literal of figurative, near or more remote):-----father, parent.

Greek 1672 Hellen, from 1671; a Hellen (Grecian) or inhabitant of Hellas; by extension a Greek-speaking person, especially a non-Jew:----Gentile, Greek.

Paul 3972  Paulos, of Latin origin; (little; but remotely from a derivative of 3973, meaning the same); Paulus, the name of a Roman and of an apostle:---Paul, Paulus.

3973 pauo, a primary verb; (“pause”); to stop (transitive or intransitive), i.e. restrain, quit, desist, come to an end:-----cease, leave, refrain.

desired 2309  thelo, or thelo, in certain tenses, theleo, and ethelo, which are otherwise obsolete; apparently strengthened from the alternate form of 138; to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas 1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebrew to delight in:----desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, will (have), (be) willing, willingly.

this one 5126

to go forth 1831  exerchomai, from 1537 and 2064; to issue (literally or figuratively):-----come (forth, out), depart (out of), escape, get out, go (abroad, away, forth, out, thence), proceed (forth), spread abroad.

with 4862  syn, a primary preposition denoting union; with or together (but much closer than 3326 or 3844), i.e. by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc. In compounds it has similar applications, including completeness:----beside, with.

him 846

taking 2983 lambano, a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses; to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively [properly objective or active, to get hold of; whereas 1209 is rather subjective or passive, to have offered to one; while 138 is more violent, to seize or remove]):-----accept, be amazed, assay, attain, bring when I call, catch, come on (unto), forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (after), take (away, up).

assay v.t. (1828 Dict.) To try or prove, by examination or experiment, the quantity and purity of metallic substances.

1. To apply to the touchstone. Milton.

assay n.

1. The trial of the goodness, purity, weight, value, etc. of metals or metallic substances. Any operation or experiment for ascertaining the quantity of a precious metal in an ore or mineral. Analysis is a term of more comprehensive import, extending to an examination of the nature and quantities of all parts of the compound.

circumcised 4059 peritemno, from 4012 and the base of 5114; to cut around, i.e. (specifically) to circumcise:-----circumcise.

4012 peri, from the base of 4008; properly through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period.) In compounds it retains substantially the same meaning of circuit (around), excess (beyond), or completeness (through):-----about, thereabout, above, against, at, on behalf of, and his company, which concern, (as) concerning, for, how it will go with, of, thereof, whereof, on, over, pertaining (to), for sake, state, estate, (as) touching, by, whereby (in), with.

4008 peran, apparently accusative of an obsolete derivative of peiro (to “pierce”); through (as adverb or prep.), i.e. across:-----beyond, farther, (other) side, over.

him 846

because 1223  dia, a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal or occasional). In compounds it retains the same general import:----after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) . . .fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, forsake, that, thereby, therefore, though, through, throughout, to wherefore, with, within.

Jews 2453  Ioudaios, from 2448 (in the sense of 2455 as a country); Judaean, i.e. belonging to Jehudah:----Jew, Jewess, of Judaea.

2448 Iouda of Hebrew origin [H3063 or perhaps H3194]; Judah (Jehudah or Juttah), a part of (or place in) Palestine:-----Judah.

2455 Ioudas of Hebrew origin [H3063]; Judas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region:---Juda, Judah, Judas, Jude.

H3194 yutta, or yuta, from H5186; extended; Juttah (or Jutah), a place in Palestine:-----Juttah.

H5186 nata, a primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications (as follows):-----afternoon, apply, bow, bow down, bowing, carry aside, decline, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread, spread out, stretch, stretch forth, stretch out, take, take aside, turn, turn aside, turn away, wrest, cause to yield.

H3063 yehuda, from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory:---Judah.

H3034 yada, a primitive root; used only as denominative from H3027; literally to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively to bemoan (by wringing the hands):----cast, cast out, confess, make confession, praise, shoot, thank, give thanks, be thankful, thanksgiving.

H3027 yad, a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as a noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]:----be able, about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, bounty, broad, brokenhanded, by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, enough, fellowship, force, from, hand, handstaves, handy work, he himself, in, labour, large, ledge, lefthanded, means, mine, ministry, near, of, order, ordinance, our, parts, pain, power, presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, thee, by them, themselves, thine own, thou, through, throwing, thumb, times, to, under, us, wait on, side, wayside, where, wide, with, with him, with me, with you, work, yield, yourselves.

celebrate v.t. (1828 Dict. def.): 

1. To praise; to extol; to commend; to give praise to; to make famous; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.  “The grave cannot celebrate thee.” Is. xxxviii.
2. To distinguish by solemn rites; to keep holy. “From even to even shall ye celebrate your sabbath.” Lev. xxiii.
3. To honor or distinguish by ceremonies and marks of joy and respect; as, to celebrate the birth day of Washington; to celebrate a marriage.
4. To mention in a solemn manner, whether of joy or sorrow.

being 5607 on, including the feminine ousa and the neuter on, present participle of 1510; being:-----be, come, have.

in 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.

those 1565 ekeinos, from 1563; that one (or neuter thing); often intensified by the article prefixed:----he, it, the other (same), selfsame, that (same, very), their, them they, this, those. See also 3778.

places 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:----coast, license, place, plain, quarter, rock, room, where.

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.

all 537 haplous, probably from G1 (as a particle of union) and the base of 4120; properly folded together, i.e. single (figuratively clear):-----single.

knew 1492 

father 3962

of him 848

that 3754

he was 5225

Greek 1672