Acts 9:39

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had 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 upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
• Prov 31:30-31 : 30 Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised. 31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
• 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.
• Jas 2:15-17 : 15 If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food, 16 And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this? 17 Even so faith without works is dead.
• 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
• 2 Sam 1:24 : 24 O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.
• Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him; 20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
• Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
• Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
• Matt 25:36-39 : 36 I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me. 37 Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you? 38 And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you? 39 And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you?
• Matt 26:11 : 11 For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
• Mark 14:8 : 8 She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
• John 12:8 : 8 The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
• John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.
• Acts 6:1 : 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.
• Acts 8:2 : 2 And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.
• Acts 9:36-37 : 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times. 37 And it came about, in those days, that she got ill and came to her death: and when she had been washed, they put her in a room which was high up.
• Acts 9:41 : 41 And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.
• Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
• Eph 4:28 : 28 Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.
• 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;