Acts 15:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And after some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city {G1722} wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, [and see] how they fare.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Μετὰ δέ τινας ἡμέρας εἶπεν Παῦλος πρὸς Βαρνάβαν, Ἐπιστρέψαντες δὴ ἐπισκεψώμεθα τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἡμῶν κατὰ πᾶσαν πόλιν ἐν αἷς κατηγγείλαμεν τὸν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου, πῶς ἔχουσιν.

Transliteration

But after tinas hēmeras eipen Paulos pros Barnaban, Having epistrepsantes dē episkepsōmetha tous adelphous hēmōn kata pasan polin en hais katēngeilamen ton logon tou Kuriou, how they echousin.

Grammar Details

*meta*: preposition + accusative - after
*tinas*: accusative, feminine, plural - some
*hēmeras*: accusative, feminine, plural - days
*eipen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd person, singular - said
*Paulos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Paul
*pros*: preposition + accusative - to
*Barnaban*: accusative, masculine, singular - Barnabas
*epistrepsantes*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - having returned
*dē*: particle - indeed/now
*episkepsōmetha*: aorist, subjunctive, middle, 1st person, plural - let us visit/see about
*tous adelphous*: accusative, masculine, plural - the brothers
*hēmōn*: genitive, 1st person, plural - of us
*kata*: preposition + accusative - throughout
*pasan*: accusative, feminine, singular - every
*polin*: accusative, feminine, singular - city
*en*: preposition + dative - in
*hais*: dative, feminine, plural - which
*katēngeilamen*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person, plural - we proclaimed
*ton logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - the word
*tou Kuriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Lord
*pōs*: adverb - how
*echousin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person, plural - they have/are

Word Meanings

*epistrepsantes*: having returned/turned back
*episkepsōmetha*: let us visit/see about/look after
*kata*: throughout/in every
*katēngeilamen*: we proclaimed/announced/preached
*echousin*: they have/are doing/are faring

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Referenced Verses

Acts 13:4 : 4 So {G3767} they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
Acts 13:13-14 : 13 Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. 14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
Acts 13:51 : 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
Acts 14:6 : 6 they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about:
Acts 14:24-25 : 24 And they passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia. 25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;
Acts 14:1 : 1 And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered {G846} together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
Exod 4:18 : 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Jer 23:2 : 2 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.
Matt 25:36 : 36 naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matt 25:43 : 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Acts 7:23 : 23 But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Rom 1:11 : 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me {G2596} daily, anxiety for all the churches.
Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
1 Thess 2:17-18 : 17 But we, brethren, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face with great desire: 18 because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;
1 Thess 3:10-11 : 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 11 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, {G5547} direct our way unto you:
2 Tim 1:4 : 4 longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Acts 14:21 : 21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch,

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