Acts 7:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐνόμιζεν δὲ συνιέναι τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς διὰ χειρὸς αὐτοῦ δίδωσιν αὐτοῖς σωτηρίαν: οἱ δὲ οὐ συνῆκαν.

Transliteration

Enomizen de synienai the adelphous of him hoti the Theos dia cheiros of him didōsin to them sōtērian: they de ou synēkan.

Grammar Details

*Enomizen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was thinking/supposing
*de*: postpositive particle - and/but/now
*synienai*: present active infinitive - to understand/comprehend
*adelphous*: accusative masculine plural - brothers
*hoti*: conjunction - that
*Theos*: nominative masculine singular - God
*dia*: preposition + genitive - through
*cheiros*: genitive feminine singular - hand
*didōsin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is giving/grants
*sōtērian*: accusative feminine singular - salvation/deliverance
*ou*: negative particle - not
*synēkan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - understood/comprehended

Word Meanings

*Enomizen*: was thinking/supposing/assuming
*synienai*: to understand/comprehend/perceive
*didōsin*: is giving/grants/provides
*sōtērian*: salvation/deliverance/rescue
*synēkan*: understood/comprehended/perceived

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 14:45 : 45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
1 Sam 19:5 : 5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Mark 9:32 : 32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Luke 9:45 : 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Luke 18:34 : 34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them , neither knew they the things which were spoken.
Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
Acts 15:4 : 4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
Acts 15:7 : 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts 21:19 : 19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

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