Acts 7:54
And hearing these things, they were infuriated in their levavot, and they were grinding their teeth at him.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
In Context
53You who received the Torah at the directions of malachim and were not shomer of it.
Cross References
Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who warreth against me; 1 He gnasheth upon me with His shinayim (teeth); 1 mine adversary sharpeneth His eyes against me. 1
Psalms 112:10The rasha shall see it, and be incensed; 1 he shall gnash his teeth, and waste away; 1 the ta'avot resha'im (desire of the wicked ones) shall come to nothing.
Matthew 8:12But the Bnei HaMalchut will be thrown out into the outer choshech (darkness), where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
Matthew 13:50And they will throw the resha'im into the furnace of Eish. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51And the Adon will cut in two that slave, and the slaveʼs portion he will put with the tzevuim (hypocrites). There will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
Luke 13:28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you will see Avraham Avinu and Yitzchak and Ya'akov and all the Neviim in the Malchut Hashem, but you yourselves being thrown out.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:52-54
Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple,… Read the whole commentary →