Acts 15:20
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כָּתַב
kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
μίασμα
míasma
(morally) foulness (properly, the effect)
גִּלּוּל
gillûwl
properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol
זָנָה
zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (...
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
חָנַק
chânaq
to be narrow; by implication, to throttle, or (reflex.) to choke oneself to death (by a rope)
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
Key Terms in This Verse
חָנַק chânaq
to be narrow; by implication, to throttle, or (reflex.) to choke oneself to death (by a rope)
Study H2614 →זָנָה zânâh
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of ...
Study H2181 →כָּתַב kâthab
to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
Study H3789 →דָּם dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
Study H1818 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat th...
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u...
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strang...
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable...
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, a...
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n...
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
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