Acts 8:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς γὰρ χολὴν πικρίας, καὶ σύνδεσμον ἀδικίας ὁρῶ σε ὄντα.

Transliteration

For in cholēn pikrias, and syndesmon adikias I horō you onta.

Grammar Details

• *cholēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - gall/bile
• *pikrias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of bitterness
• *syndesmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - bond/chain
• *adikias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of iniquity
• *horō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - see/perceive
• *onta*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - being

Word Meanings

• *cholēn pikrias*: gall of bitterness/bitter gall
• *syndesmon adikias*: bond of iniquity/chain of unrighteousness
• *horō*: see/perceive/observe
• *onta*: being/existing

Referenced Verses

• Isa 58:6 : 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
• Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
• John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.
• Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby {G1223} the many be defiled;
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
• Rom 6:17-22 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, {G1161} ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered; 18 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification. 20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. 21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
• Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
• Jer 4:18 : 18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.
• Jer 9:15 : 15 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
• Lam 3:5 : 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
• Lam 3:19 : 19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
• Deut 29:18-20 : 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
• Deut 32:32-33 : 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
• Job 20:14 : 14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
• Ps 116:16 : 16 O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds.