Acts 4:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐτῶν γὰρ ἦν πλειόνων τεσσαράκοντα ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἐφʼ ὃν ἐγεγόνει τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο τῆς ἰάσεως.

Transliteration

Of etōn gar was pleionōn forty the anthrōpos, upon whom egegonei the sēmeion this of the iaseōs.

Grammar Details

*etōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - years
*gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
*pleionōn*: genitive, neuter, plural, comparative - more
*anthrōpos*: nominative, masculine, singular - man
*egegonei*: pluperfect active indicative, 3rd singular - had happened
*sēmeion*: nominative, neuter, singular - sign/miracle
*iaseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - healing

Word Meanings

*pleionōn*: more than/over/above
*egegonei*: had happened/occurred/been done
*sēmeion*: sign/miracle/wonder
*iaseōs*: healing/cure

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Acts 9:33 : 33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed {G1537} eight years; for he was palsied.
Matt 9:20 : 20 And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment:
Luke 13:11 : 11 And behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen {G2532} {G3638} years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up.
John 5:5 : 5 And a certain man was there, who had {G1722} been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
John 9:1 : 1 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
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;

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