What Does Acts 2:1 Mean?
When the day of Pentecost was fully filled, they were all together in one place.
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 when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.THE KEY
Pentecost opens with people sharing more than a place: they hold one shared impulse.
THE MEANING
A decisive beginning takes shape as people gather in one place with a shared purpose. Their togetherness reaches beyond proximity into a common inward movement.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse dissolves the assumption that sharing a room automatically means sharing a purpose: it names their accord and their shared place separately.
THE ROOT
ὁμοθυμαδόν
homothymadon
GROWS FROM
ὁμός (homos) + θυμός (thymos)
ὁμός means same; θυμός means passion, impulse, or anger. Together they convey unanimity, people moved with one impulse.
“with one accord” in this verse is homothymadon. “Accord” can sound like settled agreement; this compound carries the image of people moving from a shared inner drive. It names what many people hold in common without making them one person.
ALSO GROWS
thymos: passion, impulse, or anger
θυμός
Its range shows the force beneath the word: accord here describes a shared inward movement, not merely quiet coexistence.
epithymia: desire or longing
ἐπιθυμία
This related word carries the same thymos element, revealing the root’s connection to an inward impulse that moves a person toward something.
THE PATTERN
A shared purpose turns mere gathering into a common life and action.
A Song of degrees of David. Look, how good and how sweet it is for brothers to settle also together!These all held fast with one passion in prayer and pleading, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.So that with one passion and one mouth you may give weight to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
These all held fast with one passion in prayer and pleading, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.Acts 1:14 uses the same Greek word, ὁμοθυμαδόν (homothymadon), for their shared accord. The word links their common impulse with the shared practice that gives it form.
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