Acts 22:4
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָדַף
râdaph
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
אָלַם
ʼâlam
to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied
παραδίδωμι
paradídōmi
to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit
אֵסוּר
ʼêçûwr
a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
Key Terms in This Verse
רָדַף râdaph
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
Study H7291 →מָוֶת mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Study H4194 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →Cross References
The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief ...
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
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