Acts 16:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Αὕτη κατακολουθήσασα τῷ Παύλῳ καὶ ἡμῖν, ἔκραζεν, λέγουσα, Οὗτοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι δοῦλοι τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου εἰσίν, οἵτινες καταγγέλλουσιν ἡμῖν ὁδὸν σωτηρίας.

Transliteration

This woman katakolouthēsasa the Paulō and us, ekrazen, legousa, These the anthrōpoi douloi of the Theou of the hypsistou eisin, who katangellousin to us hodon sōtērias.

Grammar Details

• *katakolouthēsasa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having followed closely
• *Paulō*: dative, masculine, singular - Paul
• *ekrazen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd singular - was crying out
• *legousa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - saying
• *anthrōpoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - men
• *douloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - slaves/servants
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *hypsistou*: genitive, masculine, singular - highest/most high
• *eisin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - are
• *katangellousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - proclaim/announce
• *hodon*: accusative, feminine, singular - way/road/path
• *sōtērias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of salvation

Word Meanings

• *katakolouthēsasa*: having followed closely/having followed after/having pursued
• *ekrazen*: was crying out/was screaming/was shouting
• *douloi*: slaves/servants/bondservants
• *hypsistou*: highest/most high/most exalted
• *katangellousin*: proclaim/announce/declare
• *hodon sōtērias*: way of salvation/path to salvation/road of deliverance

Referenced Verses

• Mark 5:7 : 7 and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'
• Dan 3:26 : 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar hath drawn near to the gate of the burning fiery furnace; he hath answered and said, `Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of God Most High come forth, yea, come;' then come forth do Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, from the midst of the fire;
• Dan 6:20 : 20 and at his coming near to the den, to Daniel, with a grieved voice, he crieth. The king hath answered and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, thy God, whom thou art serving continually, is He able to deliver thee from the lions?'
• Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he saith unto them, `A Hebrew I `am', and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'
• Dan 3:28 : 28 Nebuchadnezzar hath answered and hath said, `Blessed `is' the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who hath sent His messenger, and hath delivered His servants who trusted on Him, and the word of the king changed, and gave up their bodies that they might not serve nor do obeisance to any god except to their own God.
• Luke 4:34 : 34 saying, `Away, what -- to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'
• Luke 4:41 : 41 And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying -- `Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;' and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
• Luke 20:21 : 21 and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;
• Acts 16:30-31 : 30 and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?' 31 and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved -- thou and thy house;'
• Acts 18:26 : 26 this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to `them', and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,
• Acts 19:13 : 13 And certain of the wandering exorcist Jews, took upon `them' to name over those having the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, `We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul doth preach;'
• Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, 20 which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh -- 21 and a high priest over the house of God, 22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
• Gen 14:18-22 : 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he `is' priest of God Most High; 19 and he blesseth him, and saith, `Blessed `is' Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth; 20 and blessed `is' God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all. 21 And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, `Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,' 22 and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, `I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth --
• Ps 57:2 : 2 I call to God Most High, To God `who' is perfecting for me.
• Ps 78:35 : 35 And they remember that God `is' their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.
• Mark 12:14 : 14 and they having come, say to him, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men, but in truth the way of God dost teach; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? may we give, or may we not give?'
• Luke 1:77 : 77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,
• Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
• Dan 4:2 : 2 The signs and wonders that God Most High hath done with me, it is good before me to shew.
• Dan 5:18 : 18 thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:
• Dan 5:21 : 21 and from the sons of men he is driven, and his heart with the beasts hath been like, and with the wild asses `is' his dwelling; the herb like oxen they cause him to eat, and by the dew of the heavens is his body wet, till that he hath known that God Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and whom He willeth He raiseth up over it.
• Dan 6:16 : 16 Then the king hath said, and they have brought Daniel, and have cast `him' into a den of lions. The king hath answered and said to Daniel, `Thy God, whom thou art serving continually, Himself doth deliver thee.'
• Mic 6:6 : 6 With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves -- sons of a year?
• Matt 7:13-14 : 13 `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide `is' the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; 14 how strait `is' the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
• Matt 8:29 : 29 and lo, they cried out, saying, `What -- to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'
• Matt 22:16 : 16 and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;
• Mark 1:24 : 24 saying, `Away! what -- to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'
• Luke 8:28 : 28 and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'