Acts 2:24:16Acts.2.24.W16TAB
ὑπʼ
hyp
“by”
- Transliteration
- hyp
- Extended
- hüp
- IPA
- /hyp/
Meaning by language
- English
- by
Alphabet Analysis
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Pi | p — as in pet |
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Word in context
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hyp
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hon ho the-OS a-NE-stê-sen LY-sas tas ô-DI-nas tou tha-NA-tou ka-THO-ti ouk ÊN dy-na-TON kra-TEIS-thai au-TON hyp au-TOU
Exegesis
Within the causal clause, the impersonal construction ouk en dynaton {οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν | ouk ên dy-na-tón} “it was not possible” governs the infinitive krateisthai {κρατεῖσθαι | kra-teî-sthai} “to be held,” with auton {αὐτὸν | autòn} “Him” as the logical object and hyp autou {ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ | hyp autoû} “by it” marking the agent, referring back to death. The Greek order places the impossibility of death’s hold as the explicit reason for the resurrection event, emphasizing inevitability: given who Christ is, death could not retain Him. In translation, the relative clause is retained, the participle “having loosed” is preserved formally but rendered more dynamically as “freeing” to clarify the result, and the causal conjunction is expressed as “because” to maintain the explanatory force of the subordinate clause.
Root and etymology
hypolambanoupsilon–pi–omicron–lambda–alpha–mu–beta–alpha–nu–omega
“to suppose, take up, assume”
In context — Acts 2:24
Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.
About this coordinate
Acts 2:24:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Acts 2:24, so the Greek word ὑπʼ (hyp) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.2.24.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.2.24.W16.S1) and character.