Kisah Para Rasul 2:3

2:3 And tongues spreading out like a fire ¹  appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

Kisah Para Rasul 20:8

20:8 (Now there were many lamps ²  in the upstairs room where we were meeting.) ³ 

[2:3]  ¹ tn Or “And divided tongues as of fire.” The precise meaning of διαμερίζομαι (diamerizomai) in Acts 2:3 is difficult to determine. The meaning could be “tongues as of fire dividing up one to each person,” but it is also possible that the individual tongues of fire were divided (“And divided tongues as of fire appeared”). The translation adopted in the text (“tongues spreading out like a fire”) attempts to be somewhat ambiguous.

[20:8]  ² tn More commonly λαμπάς (lampa") means “torch,” but here according to BDAG 585 s.v. λαμπάς 2, “lamp…w. a wick and space for oil.”

[20:8]  ³ sn This is best taken as a parenthetical note by the author.