Acts 14:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καί τις ἀνὴρ ἐν Λύστροις, ἀδύνατος τοῖς ποσὶν ἐκάθητο, χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχων, ὃς οὐδέποτε περιπεπατήκει:

Transliteration

And a certain anēr in Lystrois, adynatos in the posin ekathēto, chōlos from koilias mētros of him hyparchōn, who oudepote peripepateikei:

Grammar Details

*anēr*: nominative masculine singular - man
*Lystrois*: dative neuter plural - in Lystra
*adynatos*: nominative masculine singular - powerless/disabled
*posin*: dative masculine plural - feet
*ekathēto*: imperfect middle indicative, 3rd person singular - was sitting
*chōlos*: nominative masculine singular - lame/crippled
*koilias*: genitive feminine singular - womb/belly
*mētros*: genitive feminine singular - mother
*hyparchōn*: present active participle, nominative masculine singular - being/existing
*oudepote*: adverb - never
*peripepateikei*: pluperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - had walked

Word Meanings

*adynatos tois posin*: powerless in his feet/disabled in his feet/unable to use his feet
*chōlos ek koilias mētros*: lame from mother's womb/crippled from birth
*hyparchōn*: being/existing/was (with emphasis on state of being)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Acts 3:2 : 2 And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily {G2596} at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
Acts 4:9 : 9 if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;
John 5:3-5 : 3 In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, 5 And a certain man was there, who had {G1722} been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
John 5:7 : 7 The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but {G1722} while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John 9:1-2 : 1 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

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