King James Version
Acts 10:13 in the King James Version says “And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.” — study this verse from Acts chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.”
Acts 10:13 · KJV
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“there came”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
“a voice”
G5456a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication, an address (for any purpose), saying or language
“to”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
“him”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“kill”
G2380properly, to rush (breathe hard, blow, smoke), i.e., (by implication) to sacrifice (properly, by fire, but genitive case); by extension to immolate (s
“And”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
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