Acts 22:4:15Acts.22.4.W15TAB
καὶ
kai
“and”
- Transliteration
- kai
- Extended
- kai
- IPA
- /kai/
Meaning by language
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
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kai
- sentence
hos TAU-tên tên ho-DON e-DI-ōk-sa A-khri tha-NA-tou des-MEU-ōn kai pa-ra-di-DOUS eis phy-la-KAS AN-dras te kai gy-NAI-kas
Exegesis
The participles desmeuōn and paradidous {δεσμεύων καὶ παραδιδοὺς | des-meú-ōn kaí pa-ra-di-doùs} are nominative masculine singular, circumstantial to the main verb, describing the characteristic means by which the persecution was carried out: by binding and handing over.
Finally, the coordinated object andras te kai gynaikas {ἄνδρας τε καὶ γυναῖκας | án-dras te kaí gu-naî-kas} uses te…kai to stress inclusiveness, highlighting that both men and women were targeted. English rendering converts the participial chain into coordinated finite verbs (“binding and handing over,” “tying up and sending”) and preserves the climactic structure from identity (“this Way”) to extent (“as far as death”) and method (“binding…handing over”) to scope (“both men and women”).
Root and etymology
dikēdí-kē
“justice, right”
In context — Acts 22:4
I myself persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and handing over to prisons both men and women .
About this coordinate
Acts 22:4:15 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 15 of Acts 22:4, so the Greek word καὶ (kai) 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.22.4.W15, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.22.4.W15.S1) and character.