Acts 4:17
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name."
Word-by-Word Analysis
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
שָׁאַל
shâʼal
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
ἀπειλέω
apeiléō
to menace; by implication, to forbid
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
יָסַף
yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
שֵׁם
shêm
an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁאַל shâʼal
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
Study H7592 →יָסַף yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Study H3254 →דָבַר dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Study H1696 →שֵׁם shêm
an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
Study H8034 →עַם ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Study H5971 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in...
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