Acts 5:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, [but] without {G3756} violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τότε ἀπελθὼν ὁ στρατηγὸς σὺν τοῖς ὑπηρέταις ἦγαγεν αὐτούς, οὐ μετὰ βίας: ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ τὸν λαόν, ἵνα μὴ λιθασθῶσιν.

Transliteration

Then apelthōn the stratēgos syn the hypēretais ēgagen them, not meta bias: ephobounto for the laon, hina not lithasthōsin.

Grammar Details

*apelthōn*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having departed/gone
*stratēgos*: nominative, masculine, singular - captain/commander
*syn*: preposition + dative - with
*hypēretais*: dative, masculine, plural - officers/assistants
*ēgagen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - brought/led
*meta*: preposition + genitive - with
*bias*: genitive, feminine, singular - violence/force
*ephobounto*: imperfect, passive, indicative, 3rd plural - were fearing
*laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people
*hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
*lithasthōsin*: aorist, passive, subjunctive, 3rd plural - they might be stoned

Word Meanings

*apelthōn*: going/departing/leaving
*stratēgos*: captain/commander/chief officer
*hypēretais*: officers/servants/attendants
*bias*: violence/force/compulsion
*ephobounto*: were afraid/feared/were terrified
*lithasthōsin*: might be stoned/would be stoned

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Referenced Verses

Acts 5:13 : 13 But of the rest durst no man join himself to them: howbeit the people magnified them;
Acts 4:21 : 21 And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Acts 5:24 : 24 Now when the captain of the temple {G5037} and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them whereunto {G302} this would grow.
Matt 14:5 : 5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matt 21:26 : 26 But if we shall say, From men; we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matt 26:5 : 5 But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among people.
Luke 20:6 : 6 But if we shall say, From men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.
Luke 20:19 : 19 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he spake this parable against them.
Luke 22:2 : 2 And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death; for they feared the people.

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