Acts 5:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τότε ἀπελθὼν ὁ στρατηγὸς σὺν τοῖς ὑπηρέταις ἦγαγεν αὐτούς, οὐ μετὰ βίας: ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ τὸν λαόν, ἵνα μὴ λιθασθῶσιν.

Transliteration

Then apelthōn the stratēgos syn the hypēretais ēgagen them, not meta bias: ephobounto for the laon, hina not lithasthōsin.

Grammar Details

*apelthōn*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having departed/gone
*stratēgos*: nominative, masculine, singular - captain/commander
*syn*: preposition + dative - with
*hypēretais*: dative, masculine, plural - officers/assistants
*ēgagen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - brought/led
*meta*: preposition + genitive - with
*bias*: genitive, feminine, singular - violence/force
*ephobounto*: imperfect, passive, indicative, 3rd plural - were fearing
*laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people
*hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
*lithasthōsin*: aorist, passive, subjunctive, 3rd plural - they might be stoned

Word Meanings

*apelthōn*: going/departing/leaving
*stratēgos*: captain/commander/chief officer
*hypēretais*: officers/servants/attendants
*bias*: violence/force/compulsion
*ephobounto*: were afraid/feared/were terrified
*lithasthōsin*: might be stoned/would be stoned

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Acts 5:13 : 13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
Acts 4:21 : 21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Acts 5:24 : 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
Matt 14:5 : 5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matt 21:26 : 26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matt 26:5 : 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Luke 20:6 : 6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
Luke 20:19 : 19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 22:2 : 2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

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