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Acts 21:32
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Acts 21:32
32Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
32Who immediatly tooke souldiers, and Centurions, and ran downe vnto them: and when they saw the chiefe captaine and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 21:32
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
immediately
At once, directly, or without intervening delay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons engaged or enlisted in military service.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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centurions
Roman officers commanding companies of about one hundred soldiers.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Departed from, allowed to remain, or abandoned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Laying on blows; striking; dashing against; conquering; pounding; sailing against the direction of the wind; etc.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study27This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
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Open the full verse study40And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
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Open the full verse study15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
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Open the full verse study17Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
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Open the full verse study19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
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Open the full verse study23And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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Open the full verse study6Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
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