Acts 2:27

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς ᾅδου, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν Ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν.

Transliteration

Because not egkataleipseis the psuchēn of me into hādou, neither dōseis the Hosion of you idein diaphthoran.

Grammar Details

• *egkataleipseis*: future active indicative, 2nd person singular - you will abandon/forsake
• *psuchēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - soul/life
• *hādou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Hades
• *dōseis*: future active indicative, 2nd person singular - you will give/grant/allow
• *Hosion*: accusative, masculine, singular - Holy One
• *idein*: aorist active infinitive - to see/experience
• *diaphthoran*: accusative, feminine, singular - corruption/decay

Word Meanings

• *egkataleipseis*: will abandon/forsake/leave behind
• *psuchēn*: soul/life/self
• *hādou*: Hades/realm of the dead/grave
• *dōseis*: will give/grant/allow/permit
• *Hosion*: Holy One/Pious One/Faithful One
• *idein*: to see/perceive/experience
• *diaphthoran*: corruption/decay/decomposition

Referenced Verses

• Acts 2:31 : 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 {G2532} I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
• Rev 20:13 : 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
• Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will redeem{H8799)} my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive{H8799)} me. Selah.
• Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered{H8689)} my soul from the lowest hell.
• Ps 89:19 : 19 Then thou spakest{H8765)} in vision to thy holy one, and saidst{H8799)}, I have laid{H8765)} help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted{H8689)} one chosen{H8803)} out of the people.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
• Luke 4:34 : 34 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
• Luke 16:23 : 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
• John 11:39 : 39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
• Matt 11:23 : 23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
• Mark 1:24 : 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Job 19:25-27 : 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• Acts 3:14 : 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
• Acts 4:27 : 27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
• Acts 13:27-37 : 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. 28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. 29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. 30 But God raised him from the dead: 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. 32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
• 1 Cor 15:55 : 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
• 1 John 2:20 : 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.