Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
When the Centurion heard that, hee went and told the chiefe captaine, saying, Take heede what thou doest, for this man is a Romane.
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- Acts 23:27Rank 1 from verse 26
27This 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.
27This man was taken of the Iewes and should haue beene killed of them: Then came I with an armie, and rescued him, hauing vnderstood that he was a Romane.
- Acts 22:29Rank 2 from verse 26
29Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
29Then straightway they departed from him which should haue ‖examined him: and the chiefe captaine also was afraid after he knew that he was a Romane, & because he had bound him.
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Acts 22:26
A Roman military captain set over a hundred men.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828
Sense 1: Perceived by the ear. Sense 2: Received or learned by report. Sense 3: Listened to, regarded, or heeded. Sense 4: Favourably attended to.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of tell (to say, relate, inform, count, or make known).
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1. First, principal, highest, leading, greatest, most excellent, most important, or most responsible in rank, order, degree, value, or guilt. 2. A leader, head, principal ruler, officer, or principal member of a group.
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1. A commander, chief, or officer set over an army, guard, band, company, people, or body. 2. A leader who goes before or conducts others in a work, course, or deliverance.
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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Careful attention, notice, or regard; to watch, consider, listen to, or guard oneself.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.
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A native or citizen of Rome.
Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
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22:22And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
22:22And they gaue him audience vnto this word, and then lift vp their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should liue.
22:23And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
22:23And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, & threw dust into the aire,
22:24The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
22:24The chiefe captaine commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that hee should be examined by scourging: that he might know wherfore they cried so against him.
22:25And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
22:25And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said vnto the Centurion that stood by, Is it lawfull for you to scourge a man that is a Romane, and vncondemned?
22:26When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
22:26When the Centurion heard that, hee went and told the chiefe captaine, saying, Take heede what thou doest, for this man is a Romane.
Selected passage22:27Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
22:27Then the chiefe captaine came; and said vnto him, Tell me, art thou a Romane? He said, Yea.
22:28And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
22:28And the chiefe captaine answered, With a great summe obteined I this freedome. And Paul said, But I was free borne.
22:29Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
22:29Then straightway they departed from him which should haue ‖examined him: and the chiefe captaine also was afraid after he knew that he was a Romane, & because he had bound him.