Acts 26:5
New Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
רֵאשִׁית
rêʼshîyth
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
עָנָה
ʻânâh
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, ...
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
αἵρεσις
haíresis
properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Φαρισαῖος
Pharisaîos
a separatist, i.e. exclusively religious; a Pharisean, i.e. Jewish sectary
Key Terms in This Verse
αἵρεσις haíresis
properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion
Study G139 →Φαρισαῖος Pharisaîos
a separatist, i.e. exclusively religious; a Pharisean, i.e. Jewish sectary
Study G5330 →עָנָה ʻânâh
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
Study H6030 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →רֵאשִׁית rêʼshîyth
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
Study H7225 →יָדַע yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...
Study H3045 →אַחַר ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Study H310 →Cross References
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection o...
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was ...
As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jer...
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
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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