Acts 21:31
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.”
ζητέω
To seek, to look for, to desire. Zeteo. Seek first the kingdom of God. Seeking is active not passive. The kingdom does not come to those who wait passively. Seek it.
σπεῖρα
cohort
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σπεῖρα
a coil (spira, "spire"), i.e. (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also (by analogy) a squad of Levitical janitors)
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συγχέω
are in an uproar
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συγχέω
to commingle promiscuously, i.e. (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder, to perplex (the mind)
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χιλίαρχος
commander
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χιλίαρχος
the commander of a thousand soldiers ("chiliarch"; i.e. colonel
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τέ
then
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τέ
both or also (properly, as correlation of G2532 (καί))
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Ἱερουσαλήμ
Jerusalem;
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Ἱερουσαλήμ
Hierusalem (i.e. Jerushalem), the capitol of Palestine
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φάσις
a report
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φάσις
a saying, i.e. report
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