Acts 24:5:17Acts.24.5.W17TAB
πρωτοστάτην
prôtôstatên
“a ringleader”
- Transliteration
- prô-tô-STA-tên
- Extended
- proh-toh-STAH-tehn
- IPA
- /prɔː.toˈsta.tɛn/
Meaning by language
- English
- a ringleader
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
prô-tô-STA-tên
- sentence
heu-RON-tes gar ton AN-dra TOU-ton loi-MON kai ki-NOUN-ta STA-seis PA-si tois iou-DAI-ois tois ka-TA tên oi-kou-ME-nên prô-tô-STA-tên te tês tôn na-zô-RAI-ôn hai-RE-se-ôs
Exegesis
The direct object ton andra touton {τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον | ton án-dra toú-ton} “this man” is followed by predicate accusatives—loimon {λοιμὸν | loi-món} “pestilence” and prototaten {πρωτοστάτην | prō-to-stá-tēn} “ringleader”—that ascribe hostile character.
The final apposition prototaten te tēs tōn Nazoraion haireseos {πρωτοστάτην τε τῆς τῶν Ναζωραίων αἱρέσεως | prō-to-stá-tēn te tês tōn Na-zō-raí-ōn hai-ré-se-ōs} identifies him as “ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,” where haireseos specifies the social group and Nazoraion names its origin. The English reconstruction breaks the flow of stacked accusatives into clear clauses (“to be…, stirring…, and acting…”) while preserving the Greek’s cumulative intensity.
In context — Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a pestilence : he incites uprisings among all the Jews throughout the inhabited world, and he is a leading figure of the sect of the Nazarenes.
About this coordinate
Acts 24:5:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Acts 24:5, so the Greek word πρωτοστάτην (prôtôstatên) 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.24.5.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.24.5.W17.S1) and character.