Acts 9:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λαβόντες δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ νυκτός, καθῆκαν διὰ τοῦ τείχους χαλάσαντες ἐν σπυρίδι.

Transliteration

Labontes de him the mathētai nyktos, kathēkan through the teichous chalasantes in spyridi.

Grammar Details

*Labontes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having taken
*de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
*mathētai*: nominative, masculine plural - disciples
*nyktos*: genitive, feminine singular - of night/by night
*kathēkan*: aorist active, 3rd plural - let down
*teichous*: genitive, neuter singular - of wall
*chalasantes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having lowered
*spyridi*: dative, feminine singular - in a basket

Word Meanings

*Labontes*: having taken/having received
*kathēkan*: let down/lowered
*chalasantes*: having lowered/having let down
*spyridi*: basket/large wicker basket

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 11:33 : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Josh 2:15 : 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
1 Sam 19:11-12 : 11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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