Acts 2:3

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

They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.

Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.

Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks,

And they saw tongues, like flames of fire, coming to rest on every one of them.

Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.

Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.

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

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.