What Does Acts 13:32 Mean?
And we bring you the good news, that the promise made to the fathers,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,THE KEY
A promise across generations is not inherited as silence; it arrives as a message spoken directly to you.
THE MEANING
What was promised before you reaches you as good news spoken now. The promise is carried forward and addressed to you in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
You are not cut off from a promise simply because it began before your lifetime; this announcement brings it to you.
THE ROOT
ἐπαγγελία
epangelia
GROWS FROM
ἐπαγγέλλω
epangellō
to announce, pledge, or promise
The word family holds together the pledge and the act of announcing it. What was spoken to the fathers is now proclaimed to you, so the promise is carried forward as living speech.
ALSO GROWS
angelia: message, announcement
ἀγγελία
The shared ἀγγελ- element keeps a promise close to the act of announcing it.
angelos: messenger
ἄγγελος
This word family also names the carrier of a message, echoing how the promise passes from speaker to hearer.
εὐαγγελιζόμεθα
euangelizometha
GROWS FROM
εὐαγγελίζομαι
euangelizomai
to announce good news
“glad tidings” in this verse is euangelizometha. The verb makes the delivery of the promise part of the verse: it is not only remembered, but proclaimed to you now. Its word family connects the announcing with the good news itself, so the message arrives as it is spoken.
ALSO GROWS
euangelion: good news, gospel
εὐαγγέλιον
The noun names the good news being announced here.
euangelistēs: one who announces good news
εὐαγγελιστής
This branch names the bearer of the announcement, showing how the message moves between people.
THE PATTERN
A promise crosses generations by being spoken anew to those who receive its announcement.
And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the ground will be blessed.How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes wholeness heard, who brings good news of good, who makes deliverance heard, who says to Zion, Your God governs.And being filled and carried through, he was persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to do.THE THREAD
For when God promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, he swore by himself,Acts uses the noun epangelia, while Hebrews uses its related verb when it says God “made promise” to Abraham. The shared word family links the announcement reaching you with the pledge made to Abraham.
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