Acts
Acts 5:24
24When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.c
Footnotes
- c 5:24 Literally as to what this might be
Word by word
Each English word or phrase beside the Greek it translates, in the order of the English. Choose a number to open that word’s study.
| English | Greek | Sounds like | Grammar | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| When | Ὡς | Hōs | Adverb | G5613 as, like as, how, while, so that |
| the | ὅ | ho | Article - Nominative Masculine Singular | G3588 the |
| captain | στρατηγὸς | stratēgos | Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular | G4755 a general, magistrate, captain of the temple |
| of the | τοῦ | tou | Article - Genitive Neuter Singular | G3588 the |
| temple | ἱεροῦ | hierou | Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular | G2411 a temple |
| and | καὶ | kai | Conjunction | G2532 and, even, also, namely |
| the | οἱ | hoi | Article - Nominative Masculine Plural | G3588 the |
| chief priests | ἀρχιερεῖς | archiereis | Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural | G749 high priest, chief priest |
| heard | ἤκουσαν | ēkousan | Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural | G191 I hear, listen |
| this | τούτους | toutous | Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural | G3778 this, he, she, it |
| account | λόγους | logous | Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural | G3056 a word, speech, divine utterance, analogy |
| they were perplexed | διηπόρουν | diēporoun | Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural | G1280 I am in trouble, doubt, difficulty |
| as to | περὶ | peri | Preposition | G4012 about, concerning, around |
| what | τί | ti | Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular | G5101 who, which, what |
| was happening | γένοιτο | genoito | Verb - Aorist Optative Middle - 3rd Person Singular | G1096 I come into being, am born |
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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.