Matthew 27:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Συμβούλιον δὲ λαβόντες, ἠγόρασαν ἐξ αὐτῶν τὸν ἀγρὸν τοῦ κεραμέως, εἰς ταφὴν τοῖς ξένοις.

Transliteration

Symboulion de labontes, they ēgorasan from them the agron of the kerameōs, for taphēn for the xenois.

Grammar Details

*Symboulion*: accusative, neuter, singular - counsel/consultation
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
*labontes*: aorist participle, nominative, masculine, plural, active - having taken
*ēgorasan*: aorist, 3rd plural, active - they bought
*agron*: accusative, masculine, singular - field
*kerameōs*: genitive, masculine, singular - potter
*taphēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - burial
*xenois*: dative, masculine, plural - strangers/foreigners

Word Meanings

*Symboulion* *labontes*: taking counsel/after consultation
*ēgorasan*: bought/purchased
*agron* *tou* *kerameōs*: Potter's Field
*taphēn*: burial place/burial ground
*xenois*: strangers/foreigners

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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