1 Corinthians 14:10
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Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
Read 1 Corinthians 14:10 Using Other Translations
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,
There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning.
What does 1 Corinthians 14:10 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Corinthians
14:10
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices
(anvl) , "tongues", or
"languages", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many
as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them,
as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at
Babel; there may be more or less:
and none of them is without signification:
every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in
it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that
understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice
ordinarily speaking.
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