Acts 9:39
New Testament • 16 words with Strong's data
"Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them."
Word-by-Word Analysis
Πέτρος
Pétros
a (piece of) rock (larger than G3037 (λίθος)); as a name, Petrus, an apostle
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
לִשְׁכָּה
lishkâh
a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh
a widow; also a desolate place
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
בְּכִי
Bᵉkîy
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
Δορκάς
Dorkás
gazelle; Dorcas, a Christian woman
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
עַד
ʻad
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
Key Terms in This Verse
עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →לִשְׁכָּה lishkâh
a room in a building (whether for storage, eating, or lodging)
Study H3957 →Πέτρος Pétros
a (piece of) rock (larger than G3037 (λίθος)); as a name, Petrus, an apostle
Study G4074 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →Cross References
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the ...
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
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