Acts 8:20

American Standard Version (1901)

But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πέτρος δὲ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτόν, Τὸ ἀργύριόν σου σὺν σοὶ εἴη εἰς ἀπώλειαν, ὅτι τὴν δωρεὰν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐνόμισας διὰ χρημάτων κτᾶσθαι.

Transliteration

Petros de eipen pros him, The argyrion of you with you eiē into apōleian, because the dōrean of Theou you enomisas through chrēmatōn ktasthai.

Grammar Details

• *Petros*: nominative, masculine, singular - Peter
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - said
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to
• *argyrion*: nominative, neuter, singular - silver/money
• *eiē*: present active optative, 3rd singular - may be
• *apōleian*: accusative, feminine, singular - destruction
• *dōrean*: accusative, feminine, singular - gift
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *enomisas*: aorist active indicative, 2nd singular - thought/considered
• *chrēmatōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of money
• *ktasthai*: present middle infinitive - to acquire/obtain

Word Meanings

• *argyrion*: silver/money
• *eiē*: may be/go (optative expressing a wish/curse)
• *apōleian*: destruction/ruin/perdition
• *dōrean*: gift/free gift
• *enomisas*: thought/considered/supposed
• *ktasthai*: to acquire/obtain/purchase

Referenced Verses

• Acts 2:38 : 38 And Peter [said] unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Dan 5:17 : 17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
• Matt 10:8 : 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.
• Rev 18:15 : 15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;
• Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.
• Zech 5:4 : 4 I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
• Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
• Acts 10:45 : 45 And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 11:17 : 17 If then God gave unto them the like gift as [he did] also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?
• 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Jas 5:3 : 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
• 2 Pet 2:14-17 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet. 17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
• Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to it] . 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
• Acts 1:18 : 18 (Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
• Deut 7:26 : 26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
• Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• Josh 7:24-25 : 24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up unto the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
• 2 Kgs 5:15-16 : 15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a present of thy servant. 16 But he said, As Jehovah liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
• 2 Kgs 5:26-27 : 26 And he said unto him, Went not my heart [with thee], when the man turned from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants? 27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.
• Prov 15:26 : 26 Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But pleasant words [are] pure.
• Isa 55:1 : 1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.