Acts 7:16

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

and were translated into Sichem ond were put in ye sepulcre that Abraham bought for money of the sonnes of Emor at Sichem.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ μετετέθησαν εἰς Συχέμ, καὶ ἐτέθησαν ἐν τῷ μνήματι ὅ ὠνήσατο Ἀβραὰμ τιμῆς ἀργυρίου παρὰ τῶν υἱῶν Ἑμμὼρ τοῦ Συχέμ.

Transliteration

And metetethēsan eis Sychem, kai etethēsan en tō mnēmati ho ōnēsato Abraam timēs argyriou para tōn huiōn Hemmōr tou Sychem.

Grammar Details

• *metetethēsan*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person plural - they were removed/transferred
• *eis Sychem*: preposition + accusative - to Shechem
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *etethēsan*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person plural - they were placed/laid
• *en tō mnēmati*: preposition + dative neuter singular - in the tomb
• *ho*: accusative neuter singular relative pronoun - which
• *ōnēsato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - he purchased
• *Abraam*: nominative masculine singular - Abraham
• *timēs*: genitive feminine singular - for a price
• *argyriou*: genitive neuter singular - of silver
• *para*: preposition - from
• *tōn huiōn*: genitive masculine plural - the sons
• *Hemmōr*: genitive masculine singular - of Hamor
• *tou Sychem*: genitive masculine singular - of Shechem

Word Meanings

• *metetethēsan*: were removed/were transferred/were carried
• *etethēsan*: were placed/were laid/were buried
• *mnēmati*: tomb/sepulcher/grave
• *ōnēsato*: purchased/bought/acquired
• *timēs argyriou*: for a price of silver/for money
• *para*: from/by/at the hands of
• *huiōn*: sons/descendants/children

Referenced Verses

• Gen 23:16 : 16 And Abraham harkened vnto Ephron and weyde him the sylver which he had sayde in the audyence of the sonnes of Heth. Euen.iiij. hudred syluer sycles of currant money amonge marchauntes
• Exod 13:19 : 19 And Moses toke the bones of Ioseph with him: for he made the childern of Israel swere saynge: God will surely vyset you, take my bones therfore away hence with you,
• Gen 33:9-9 : 9 And Esau sayde: I haue ynough my brother kepe that thou hast vnto thy silf. 10 Iacob answered: oh nay but yf I haue founde grace in thy syghte receaue my preaset of my hade: for I haue sene thy face as though I had sene ye face of God: wherfore receaue me to grac 11 and take my blessynge that I haue brought the for God hath geuen it me frely. And I haue ynough of all thynges. And so he compelled him to take it. 12 And he sayde: let us take oure iourney and goo and I will goo in thy copany. 13 And he sayde vnto him: my LORde knoweth that I haue tendre childern ewes and kyne with yonge vnder myne hande which yf men shulde ouerdryue but euen one daye the hole flocke wolde dye. 14 Let my LORde therfore goo before his servaunte and I will dryue fayre and softly accordynge as the catell that goth before me and the childern be able to endure: vntill I come to mi LORde vnto Seir. 15 And Esau sayde: let me yet leaue some of my folke with the. And he sayde: what neadeth it? let me fynde grace in the syghte of my lord 16 So Esau went his waye agayne yt same daye vnto Seir. 17 And Iacob toke his iourney toward Sucoth and bylt him an house and made boothes for his catell: wherof the name of the place is called Sucoth. 18 And Iacob went to Salem to ye cytie of Sichem in the lande of Canaa after that he was come from Mesopotamia and pitched before the cyt 19 and bought a parcell of ground where he pitched his tent of the childern of Hemor Sichems father for an hundred lambes. 20 And he made there an aulter and there called vpon the myghtie God of Israell.
• Gen 34:2-9 : 2 And Siche the sonne of Hemor the Heuite LORde of the countre sawe her and toke her and laye with her and forced her: 3 and his harte laye vnto Dina ye doughter of Iacob. And he loued yt damsell and spake kidly vnto her 4 and spake vnto his father Hemor saynge gett me this mayde vnto my wyfe. 5 And Iacob herde that he had defyled Dina his doughter but his sonnes were with the catell in the felde and therfore he helde his peace vntill they were come. 6 Then Hemor the father of Sichem went out vnto Iacob to come with him. 7 And the sonnes of Iacob came out of the felde as soone as they herde it for it greued them and they were not a litle wrooth because he had wrought folie in Israell in that he had lyen with Iacobs doughter which thinge oughte not to be done. 8 And Hemor comened with the sainge? the soule of my sonne Siche logeth for youre doughter geue her him to wyf 9 and make mariages with vs: geue youre doughters vnto vs ad take oure doughters vnto you 10 and dwell with vs and the lande shall be at youre pleasure dwell and do youre busynes and haue youre possessions there in. 11 And Sichem sayde vnto hyr father and hir brethern: let me fynde grace in youre eyes and what soeuer ye apoynte me that will I geue. 12 Axe frely of me both the dowry and gyftes and I will geue acordynge as ye saye vnto me and geue me the damsell to wyfe. 13 Then the sonnes of Iacob answered to Sichem ad Hemor his father deceytefully because he had defyled Dina their syster. 14 And they sayde vnto them we can not do this thinge yt we shulde geue oure syster to one that is vncircumcysed for that were a shame vnto us. 15 Only in this will we consent vnto you? Yf ye will be as we be that all the men childern amonge you be circumcysed 16 tha will we geue oure doughter to you and take youres to vs and will dwell with you and be one people. 17 But and yf ye will not harken vnto vs to be circumcysed than will we take oure doughter and goo oure wayes. 18 And their wordes pleased Hemor and Sichem his sonne. 19 And the yonge man deferde not for to do the thinge because he had a lust to Iacobs doughter: he was also most sett by of all that were in his fathers house. 20 Tha Hemor and Sichem went vnto the gate of their cyte and comened with the men of their cyte sayncte. 21 These men ar peasable with us and will dwell in the lade and do their occupatio therin And in the land is rowme ynough for the let us take their doughters to wyues and geue them oures: 22 only herin will they consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs and to be one people: yf all the men childern that are amonge vs be circumcysed as they are. 23 Their goodes and their substance and all their catell are oures only let vs consente vnto them that they maye dwell with vs. 24 And vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonneharkened all that went out at the gate of his cyte. And all the men childern were circumcysed what soeuer went out at the gates of his cyte. 25 And the third daye when it was paynefull to them ij. of the sonnes of Iacob Simeon and Leui Dinas brethren toke ether of them his swerde and went in to the cyte boldly and slewe all yt was mal 26 and slewe also Hemor and Sichem his sonne with the edge of the swerde ad toke Dina their sister out of Sichems house and went their waye. 27 Than came the sonnes of Iacob vpon the deede and spoyled the cyte because they had defyled their sister: 28 and toke their shepe oxen asses and what so euer was in the cyte and also in ye feldes. 29 And all their goodes all their childern and their wyues toke they captyue and made havock of all that was in the houses. 30 And Iacob sayde to Simeon and Leui: ye haue troubled me ad made me styncke vnto the inhabitatours of the lande both to the Canaanytes and also vnto the Pherezites. And I am fewe in nombre. Wherfore they shall gather them selves together agaynst me and sley me and so shall I and my house be dystroyed. 31 And they answered: shuld they deall with oure sister as wyth an whoore?
• Gen 35:19 : 19 And thus dyed Rahel ad was buryed in the waye to Ephrath which now is called Bethlehem.
• Gen 49:29-32 : 29 And he charged them and sayde vnto them. I shall be put vnto my people: se that ye burye me with my fathers in the caue that is in the felde of Ephron the Hethyt 30 in the double caue that is in the felde before Mamre in the lande of Canaan. Which felde Abraham boughte of Ephron the Hethite for a possessio to burye in. 31 There they buryed Abraha and Sara his wyfe there they buryed Isaac and Rebecca his wyfe. And there I buried Lea: 32 which felde and the caue that is therin was bought of the childern of Heth.
• Gen 50:13 : 13 And his sonnes caried him in to the land of Canaan and buryed him in the double caue which Abraha had boughte with the felde to be a place to burye in of Ephron the Hethite before Mamre.