Acts 4:28

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ποιῆσαι ὅσα ἡ χείρ σου καὶ ἡ βουλή σου προώρισεν γενέσθαι.

Transliteration

To poiēsai whatever the cheir of you and the boulē of you proōrisen genesthai.

Grammar Details

• *poiēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to do
• *cheir*: nominative, feminine, singular - hand
• *boulē*: nominative, feminine, singular - counsel/purpose
• *proōrisen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - predetermined/foreordained
• *genesthai*: aorist middle infinitive - to become/happen

Word Meanings

• *poiēsai*: to do/perform/accomplish
• *cheir*: hand/power
• *boulē*: counsel/purpose/plan/will
• *proōrisen*: predetermined/foreordained/predestined
• *genesthai*: to happen/come to pass/take place

Referenced Verses

• Acts 2:23 : 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
• Isa 46:10 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Gen 50:20 : 20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
• Job 12:13 : 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
• Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise{H8686)} thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain{H8799)}.
• Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
• Isa 5:19 : 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
• Isa 28:29 : 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
• Isa 40:13 : 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
• Isa 53:10 : 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• Matt 26:24 : 24 {G3303} The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
• Matt 26:54 : 54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
• Luke 22:22 : 22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
• Luke 24:44-46 : 44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
• Acts 3:18 : 18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
• Acts 13:27-29 : 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.
• Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Heb 6:17 : 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• 1 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.