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Acts 21:31 Interlinear

“as they went about And him to kill came tidings unto the chief captain of the band that all was in an uproar Jerusalem”

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Acts 21 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	ζητούντων	G2212	as they went about	to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by hebraism) to worship (god), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
2	δὲ	G1161	And	but, and, etc
3	αὐτὸν	G846	him	the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
4	ἀποκτεῖναι	G615	to kill	to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy
5	ἀνέβη	G305	came	to go up (literally or figuratively)
6	φάσις	G5334	tidings	a saying, i.e., report
7	τῷ	G3588		the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
8	χιλιάρχῳ	G5506	unto the chief captain	the commander of a thousand soldiers ("chiliarch"; i.e., colonel
9	τῆς	G3588		the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
10	σπείρης	G4686	of the band	a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e., (figuratively) a mass of men (a roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of levitical janitors)
11	ὅτι	G3754	that	demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
12	ὅλη	G3650	all	"whole" or "all", i.e., complete (in extent, amount, time or degree), especially (neuter) as noun or adverb
13	συγκέχυται	G4797	was in an uproar	to commingle promiscuously, i.e., (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder, to perplex (the mind)
14	Ἰερουσαλήμ	G2419	Jerusalem	hierusalem (i.e., jerushalem), the capitol of palestine

Acts 21:31 (current)as they went about And him to kill came tidings unto the chief captain of the band that all was in an uproar Jerusalem