Acts 15:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀνθρώποις παραδεδωκόσιν τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Transliteration

Men having paradedōkosin tas psuchas autōn hyper tou onomatos tou Kuriou of us Iēsou Christou.

Grammar Details

• *anthrōpois*: dative, masculine, plural - men
• *paradedōkosin*: perfect participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - having given over
• *tas psuchas*: accusative, feminine, plural - the lives/souls
• *autōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of them
• *hyper*: preposition + genitive - for/on behalf of
• *tou onomatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - the name
• *tou Kuriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Lord
• *hēmōn*: genitive, 1st person, plural - of us
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus Christ

Word Meanings

• *paradedōkosin*: having given over/risked/hazarded
• *psuchas*: souls/lives
• *hyper*: for/on behalf of/for the sake of
• *onomatos*: name/reputation

Referenced Verses

• Acts 14:19 : 19 But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, {G2532} they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
• Acts 9:23-25 : 23 And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him: 24 but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him: 25 but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
• Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.
• Judg 5:18 : 18 Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
• 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 {G2532} Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• Phil 2:29-30 : 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor: 30 because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.