Acts 5:26
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
שֹׁטֵר
shôṭêr
properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
חָמָס
châmâç
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
יָרֵא
yârêʼ
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
בִּלְתִּי
biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...
רָגַם
râgam
to cast together (stones), i.e. to lapidate
Key Terms in This Verse
שֹׁטֵר shôṭêr
properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
Study H7860 →בִּלְתִּי biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.
Study H1115 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →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 →Cross References
And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
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.
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
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.
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
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