Acts 13:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he hath spoken on this wise, I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι δὲ ἀνέστησεν αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν, μηκέτι μέλλοντα ὑποστρέφειν εἰς διαφθοράν, οὕτως εἴρηκεν, ὅτι Δώσω ὑμῖν τὰ ὅσια Δαυίδ τὰ πιστά.

Transliteration

That de anestēsen him ek nekrōn, mēketi mellonta hypostrephein into diaphthoran, thus eirēken, that Dōsō to-you the hosia David the pista.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - and/but/now
• *anestēsen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - he raised up
• *ek*: preposition + genitive - from/out of
• *nekrōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - dead ones
• *mēketi*: adverb - no longer/no more
• *mellonta*: present, active, participle, accusative, masculine, singular - being about to
• *hypostrephein*: present, active, infinitive - to return
• *diaphthoran*: accusative, feminine, singular - corruption
• *eirēken*: perfect, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - he has said
• *Dōsō*: future, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I will give
• *hosia*: accusative, neuter, plural - holy things
• *David*: genitive, masculine, singular - proper name
• *pista*: accusative, neuter, plural - faithful/trustworthy

Word Meanings

• *anestēsen*: raised up/resurrected/brought back to life
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses
• *mellonta*: being about to/intending to/going to
• *hypostrephein*: to return/to go back
• *diaphthoran*: corruption/decay/destruction
• *eirēken*: he has said/he has spoken/he has declared
• *hosia*: holy things/sacred things/faithful mercies
• *pista*: faithful/sure/trustworthy

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Ps 89:2-4 : 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah
• Rom 6:9 : 9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.
• Ps 89:19-37 : 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers. 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth. 28 My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; 31 If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. 33 But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: 36 His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky. {H5542}
• 2 Sam 7:14-16 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 15 but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.
• Jer 33:15-17 : 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness. 17 For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
• Jer 33:26 : 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
• Ezek 34:23-24 : 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
• Ezek 37:24-25 : 24 And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear unto Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.
• Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
• Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day shall Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of Jehovah before them.
• Acts 13:37 : 37 but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.