Acts 17:21 — compare English translations
Compare translationsActs 17:21 in 3 English versions, beneath the original-language interlinear. Each original word links to its lexicon entry, so you can weigh the renderings against the morphology yourself. Full word study →
Ἀθηναῖοι
Athēnaîos
G117
Athenian
δὲ
dé
G1161
but
πάντες
pâs
G3956
all
καὶ
kaí
G2532
and
οἱ
ho
G3588
the
ἐπιδημοῦντες
epidēméō
G1927
to be present
ξένοι
xénos
G3581
stranger
εἰς
eis
G1519
into
οὐδὲν
oudeís
G3762
nothing
ἕτερον
héteros
G2087
another
ηὐκαίρουν
eukairéō
G2119
to have opportunity
ἢ
ḗ
G2228
or
λέγειν
légō
G3004
to say
τι
tìs
G5100
a certain
ἢ
ḗ
G2228
or
ἀκούειν
akoúō
G191
to hear
τι
tìs
G5100
a certain
καινότερον
kainós
G2537
new
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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King James Version Public Domain
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
(Now all the Athenians and the sojourning foreigners were devoting their leisure to nothing other than either to say something or to hear something newer.)
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).