Acts 5:33

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And they having heard, were cut `to the heart', and were taking counsel to slay them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες, διεπρίοντο, καὶ ἐβουλεύοντο ἀνελεῖν αὐτούς.

Transliteration

They de having akousantes, dieprionto, and ebouleqonto to anelein them.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *akousantes*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having heard
• *dieprionto*: imperfect, passive, indicative, 3rd plural - were cut to the heart
• *ebouleqonto*: imperfect, middle, indicative, 3rd plural - were taking counsel
• *anelein*: aorist, active, infinitive - to kill/destroy

Word Meanings

• *dieprionto*: were cut to the heart/were furious/were infuriated
• *ebouleqonto*: were taking counsel/were planning/were considering
• *anelein*: to kill/to put to death/to do away with

Referenced Verses

• Acts 2:37 : 37 And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?'
• Acts 7:54 : 54 And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;
• Acts 9:23 : 23 And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him,
• Acts 22:22 : 22 And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'
• Gen 4:5-8 : 5 and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen. 6 And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen? 7 Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.' 8 And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, ``Let us go into the field;'' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
• Ps 37:12-15 : 12 The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth. 13 The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh. 14 A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way. 15 Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.
• Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death. 33 Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.
• Ps 64:2-8 : 2 Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep. 7 And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds, 8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
• Matt 10:21 : 21 `And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,
• Matt 10:25 : 25 sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?
• Matt 23:34-35 : 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:
• Matt 24:9 : 9 then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;
• Luke 4:28-29 : 28 And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things, 29 and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built -- to cast him down headlong,
• Luke 6:11 : 11 and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.
• Luke 11:50-54 : 50 that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation. 52 `Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.' 53 And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, 54 laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
• Luke 19:45-48 : 45 And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying, 46 saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.' 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people -- 48 and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.
• Luke 20:19 : 19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.
• John 15:20 : 20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;
• John 16:2 : 2 out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;