Acts 8:36 — compare English translations
Compare translationsActs 8:36 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 →
ὡς
hōs
G5613
as
δὲ
dé
G1161
but
ἐπορεύοντο
poreúomai
G4198
to go
κατὰ
katá
G2596
down
τὴν
ho
G3588
the
ὁδόν
hodós
G3598
way
ἦλθον
érchomai
G2064
to come
ἐπί
epí
G1909
upon
τι
tìs
G5100
a certain
ὕδωρ
hýdōr
G5204
water
καί
kaí
G2532
and
φησιν
phēmí
G5346
to declare
ὁ
ho
G3588
the
εὐνοῦχος
eunoûchos
G2135
eunuch
ἰδοὺ
horáō
G3708
to see
ὕδωρ
hýdōr
G5204
water
τί
tís
G5101
who
κωλύει
kōlýō
G2967
to hinder
με
egṓ
G1473
I
βαπτισθῆναι
baptízō
G907
to baptize
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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World English Bible Public Domain
As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"
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King James Version Public Domain
And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And as they were going along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch says, “Behold, water! What is preventing my being baptized?”
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).