Acts 12:20
New Testament • 21 words with Strong's data
"And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country."
Word-by-Word Analysis
Ἡρώδης
Hērṓdēs
heroic; Herod, the name of four Jewish kings
בְּרַם
bᵉram
properly, highly, i.e. surely; but used adversatively, however
יָרַע
yâraʻ
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
צֹרִי
Tsôrîy
a Tsorite or inhabitant of Tsor (i.e. Syrian)
צִידוֹן
Tsîydôwn
Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
סָפִיחַ
çâphîyach
something (spontaneously) falling off, i.e. a self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet
בַּעַל
baʻal
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Βλάστος
Blástos
Blastus, an officer of Herod Agrippa
סָרִיס
çârîyç
a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state
שָׁלוֹם
shâlôwm
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
כּוּל
kûwl
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
בְּרַם bᵉram
properly, highly, i.e. surely; but used adversatively, however
Study H1297 →סָרִיס çârîyç
a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), and thus, a minister of state
Study H5631 →כּוּל kûwl
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
Study H3557 →צִידוֹן Tsîydôwn
Tsidon, the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine
Study H6721 →סָפִיחַ çâphîyach
something (spontaneously) falling off, i.e. a self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet
Study H5599 →יָרַע yâraʻ
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Study H3415 →Cross References
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to ...
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty th...
And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
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