King James Version
Acts 7:28 in the King James Version says “Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?” — study this verse from Acts chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?”
Acts 7:28 · KJV
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Wilt”
G3361(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas g3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
“kill”
G337to take up, i.e., adopt; by implication, to take away (violently), i.e., abolish, murder
to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas g1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations),
a turn, i.e., (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition or relative prefix as adverb, like); figuratively, deportment or character
“kill”
G337to take up, i.e., adopt; by implication, to take away (violently), i.e., abolish, murder
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