Acts 9:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λαβόντες δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ νυκτός, καθῆκαν διὰ τοῦ τείχους χαλάσαντες ἐν σπυρίδι.

Transliteration

Labontes de him the mathētai nyktos, kathēkan through the teichous chalasantes in spyridi.

Grammar Details

*Labontes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having taken
*de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
*mathētai*: nominative, masculine plural - disciples
*nyktos*: genitive, feminine singular - of night/by night
*kathēkan*: aorist active, 3rd plural - let down
*teichous*: genitive, neuter singular - of wall
*chalasantes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having lowered
*spyridi*: dative, feminine singular - in a basket

Word Meanings

*Labontes*: having taken/having received
*kathēkan*: let down/lowered
*chalasantes*: having lowered/having let down
*spyridi*: basket/large wicker basket

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 11:33 : 33 and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Josh 2:15 : 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
1 Sam 19:11-12 : 11 And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain. 12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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