Matthew 27:24
New Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it."
Word-by-Word Analysis
Πιλᾶτος
Pilâtos
close-pressed, i.e. firm; Pilatus, a Roman
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
בָּחַר
bâchar
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
שָׁאוֹן
shâʼôwn
uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
רָחַץ
râchats
to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Key Terms in This Verse
נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, a...
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
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