Acts 2:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς ᾅδου, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν Ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν.

Transliteration

Because not egkataleipseis the psuchēn of me into hādou, neither dōseis the Hosion of you idein diaphthoran.

Grammar Details

• *egkataleipseis*: future active indicative, 2nd person singular - you will abandon/forsake
• *psuchēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - soul/life
• *hādou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Hades
• *dōseis*: future active indicative, 2nd person singular - you will give/grant/allow
• *Hosion*: accusative, masculine, singular - Holy One
• *idein*: aorist active infinitive - to see/experience
• *diaphthoran*: accusative, feminine, singular - corruption/decay

Word Meanings

• *egkataleipseis*: will abandon/forsake/leave behind
• *psuchēn*: soul/life/self
• *hādou*: Hades/realm of the dead/grave
• *dōseis*: will give/grant/allow/permit
• *Hosion*: Holy One/Pious One/Faithful One
• *idein*: to see/perceive/experience
• *diaphthoran*: corruption/decay/decomposition

Referenced Verses

• Acts 2:31 : 31 he foreseeing [this] spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he {G5590} left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, {G0} {G281} and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
• Rev 20:13 : 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
• Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. {H5542}
• Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
• Ps 89:19 : 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.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
• Luke 4:34 : 34 Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Luke 16:23 : 23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
• John 11:39 : 39 Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body decayeth; for he hath been [dead] four days.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
• Matt 11:23 : 23 And you, Capernaum, shall you be exalted unto heaven? you shall go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day.
• Mark 1:24 : 24 saying, {G1436} What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Job 19:25-27 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
• Acts 3:14 : 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,
• Acts 4:27 : 27 for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,
• Acts 13:27-37 : 27 For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every {G2596} sabbath, fulfilled [them] by condemning [him]. 28 And though they found no cause of death [in him], yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain. 29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead: 31 and he was seen for many days of them that came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses unto the people. 32 And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers, 33 that God hath fulfilled the same unto our {G846} children, in that he raised up Jesus; {G450} as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 34 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. 35 Because he saith also in another [psalm], Thou wilt not give Thy Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 but he whom God raised up saw no corruption.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
• 1 Cor 15:55 : 55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
• 1 John 2:20 : 20 And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things.