Acts 9:39

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀναστὰς δὲ Πέτρος συνῆλθεν αὐτοῖς. Ὃν παραγενόμενον, ἀνήγαγον εἰς τὸ ὑπερῷον: καὶ παρέστησαν αὐτῷ πᾶσαι αἱ χῆραι κλαίουσαι, καὶ ἐπιδεικνύμεναι χιτῶνας καὶ ἱμάτια ὅσα ἐποίει, μετʼ αὐτῶν οὖσα ἡ Δορκάς.

Transliteration

Anastas de Petros synēlthen with them. Whom paragenomenon, anēgagon to the hyperōon: and parestēsan to him all the chērai klaiousai, and epideiknumenai chitōnas and himatia as many as epoiei, with them ousa the Dorkas.

Grammar Details

• *Anastas*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having risen
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• *Petros*: nominative, masculine singular - Peter
• *synēlthen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - went with
• *paragenomenon*: aorist middle participle, accusative masculine singular - having arrived
• *anēgagon*: aorist active, 3rd plural - led up
• *hyperōon*: accusative, neuter singular - upper room
• *parestēsan*: aorist active, 3rd plural - stood beside
• *chērai*: nominative, feminine plural - widows
• *klaiousai*: present active participle, nominative feminine plural - weeping
• *epideiknumenai*: present middle participle, nominative feminine plural - showing
• *chitōnas*: accusative, masculine plural - tunics
• *himatia*: accusative, neuter plural - garments/cloaks
• *epoiei*: imperfect active, 3rd singular - was making
• *ousa*: present active participle, nominative feminine singular - being
• *Dorkas*: nominative, feminine singular - Dorcas

Word Meanings

• *Anastas*: having risen/having gotten up
• *synēlthen*: went with/accompanied/went along with
• *paragenomenon*: having arrived/having come
• *anēgagon*: led up/brought up
• *parestēsan*: stood beside/stood around/presented themselves
• *chērai*: widows
• *klaiousai*: weeping/crying/lamenting
• *epideiknumenai*: showing/displaying/exhibiting
• *chitōnas*: tunics/undergarments
• *himatia*: garments/cloaks/outer garments
• *epoiei*: was making/was producing/was creating
• *ousa*: being/existing/staying

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
• Prov 31:30-31 : 30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.
• 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.
• Jas 2:15-17 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
• 1 John 3:18 : 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
• 2 Sam 1:24 : 24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
• Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
• Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
• Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me.
• Matt 25:36-39 : 36 naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? 38 And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
• Matt 26:11 : 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
• Mark 14:8 : 8 She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.
• John 12:8 : 8 For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
• John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them, {G1722} {G2889} I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but {G3361} the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
• Acts 6:1 : 1 Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
• Acts 8:2 : 2 And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
• Acts 9:36-37 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. 37 And it came to pass in those days, that she fell sick, and died: and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber.
• Acts 9:41 : 41 And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
• Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the readiness is there, [it is] acceptable according as [a man] hath, not according as [he] hath not.
• Eph 4:28 : 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;