Sunday, July 30, 2023

Acts 10:34a, 37-43 annotated

This translation is from the New American Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Greek meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text.   

 

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Peter proceeded to speak and said: 

 

“You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.

They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

 

anointed = χρω = chriō  Blue Letter Bible   consecrating to office, and furnishing with the necessary powers for its administration; to consecrate to an office or religious service; is used of kings, priests, prophets; to smear or rub with oil; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  to be declared, proclaimed by an oracle; furnish with a thing; experience, suffer, be subject to 

 

power = δναμις = dynamis  Blue Letter Bible  ability; force, inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth; moral power and excellence of soul; might; power for performing miracles;  R. Trench, New Testament Synonyms outcomings of that mighty power of God; powers being by Him lent to those who were his witnesses and ambassadors; pointing ... to new and higher forces ... which have entered and are working in this lower world of ours; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  might; strength, power, ability to do anything; influence, authority; faculty, capacity

 

good = εεργετω = euergeteō  Blue Letter Bible  to bestow a benefit; to have efficacy, force or value; to be profitable, expedient; bestow benefits; to be philanthropic; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  do good services or show kindness; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (alternate) beneficent, bountiful  


healing = ἰάομαι = iaomai   Blue Letter Bible  to make whole, wholesome; to cure, heal;to free from errors and sins, to bring about (one's) salvation; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  heal, cure, treat; cure the effects of, counteract; repair; recover

 

oppressed = καταδυναστεω = katadynasteuō  Blue Letter Bible  to exercise harsh control over one, to use one's power against one; to exercise dominion against; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  get control   

 

with = μετ = meta  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  in the midst of, among, between; in common, along with, by aid of; together; in conjunction; in one's dealings; into the middle of, coming into or among; into the midst of; participation; Blue Letter Bible  in the midst of; amid, among; with one as leader; into the middle of, into the midst of; association, fellowship, participation

 

raised = γερω = egeirō  Blue Letter Bible to arouse, cause to rise; to awake; to raise up, produce, cause to appear; bring before the public;  rouse from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; raise up one “down” with disease, lying sick;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  awaken, rouse, stir up; prick up; keep awake 


visible = μφανς = emphanēs  Blue Letter Bible  manifest; to show, exhibit; giving proofs; apparent;Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  exhibit, display; to be seen; to be manifested; to be exemplified;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (alternate)  visible to the eye, appearing bodily; palpable; without doubt

 

rose = νστημι = anistēmi  Blue Letter Bible  to stand up or to make to stand up; lifted; to cause to rise up, raise up; appear, stand forth; leap up, spring up, start up;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon   make to stand up, raise up; rouse to action, stir up; rise up, rear itself; set out

 

judge = κριτς = kritēs  Blue Letter Bible  one who passes or arrogates to himself judgment on anything; an arbiter; the leaders or rulers of the Israelites;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  judge, umpire

 

believes = πιστεω = pisteuō  Blue Letter Bible  to be persuaded of, and hence, to place confidence in, to trust, signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence; to entrust, commit to; to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul; credit; to have a faith directed unto, believing or in faith to give oneself up to; to commit oneself trustfully; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon trust, put faith in, rely on; comply; feel confident that a thing is

 

receive = λαμβνω = lambanō  Blue Letter Bible to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it; to take up a thing to be carried; to take upon one's self; to take to one's self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self; catch at, reach after, strive to obtain; to receive a person, give him access to one's self; have, hold, obtain, receive; to take with one for future use;  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  take hold of, grasp, seize; take by violence, carry off as prize or booty; possess; catch, find out, detect; apprehend by the senses; apprehend with the mind, understand; determine, estimate; take in hand, undertake; have given one, get, receive; receive hospitably; receive as produce, profit; take hold of, lay hold on; seize and keep hold of, obtain possession of

 

forgiveness = φεσις = aphesis Blue Letter Bible a release, from bondage, imprisonment, etc.; liberation from captivity; dismissal, release; remission; pardon of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty; forgiveness, pardon, of sins (properly, the letting them go, as if they had not been committed); Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon  letting go, release; quittance from; discharge from

 

 

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