Acts 15:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀνθρώποις παραδεδωκόσιν τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Transliteration

Men having paradedōkosin tas psuchas autōn hyper tou onomatos tou Kuriou of us Iēsou Christou.

Grammar Details

• *anthrōpois*: dative, masculine, plural - men
• *paradedōkosin*: perfect participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - having given over
• *tas psuchas*: accusative, feminine, plural - the lives/souls
• *autōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of them
• *hyper*: preposition + genitive - for/on behalf of
• *tou onomatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - the name
• *tou Kuriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Lord
• *hēmōn*: genitive, 1st person, plural - of us
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Jesus Christ

Word Meanings

• *paradedōkosin*: having given over/risked/hazarded
• *psuchas*: souls/lives
• *hyper*: for/on behalf of/for the sake of
• *onomatos*: name/reputation

Referenced Verses

• Acts 14:19 : 19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
• Acts 9:23-25 : 23 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him: 24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
• Acts 13:50 : 50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
• Judg 5:18 : 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
• 1 Cor 15:30 : 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• Phil 2:29-30 : 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: 30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.