Acts 12:21

And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
Word Reference
Original Word Definitions
τακτῇ
G5002 A-DSF
taktos
arranged, i.e., appointed or stated
  • ordered, arranged, fixed, stated
δὲ
G1161 CONJ
de
but, and, etc
  • but, moreover, and, etc.
ἡμέρᾳ
G2250 N-DSF
hēmera
day, i.e., (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively, a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context)
  • the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night
    • in the daytime
    • "metaphorically, ___%___the day___%___ is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness
    of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)"of the last day of this present age, the day Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom"used of time in general, i.e., the days of his life.
G3588 T-NSM
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
  • this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than ___%___the___%___ counted
Ἡρῴδης
G2264 N-NSM-P
hērōdēs
heroic
heroic; Herod, the name of four Jewish kings
  • the name of a royal family that flourished among the Jews in the times of Christ and the Apostles
    • Herod the Great (the ruler of Judaea when Jesus Christ was born
    • "Herod surnamed ___%___Antipas,___%___ the son of Herod the Great, (the ruler during the latter part of Jesus' earthly life"Herod Agrippa I, the son of Aristobulus and Berenice and grandson of Herod the Great, (he ordered James to be executed and imprisoned Peter)"Herod Agrippa II (referred to in the New Testament simply as Agrippa), son of Herod Agrippa I (he was almost persuaded to become a Christian by Paul's arguments)
ἐνδυσάμενος
G1746 V-AMP-NSM
endyō
to invest with clothing (literally or figuratively)
  • to sink into (clothing), put on, clothe one's self
ἐσθῆτα
G2066 N-ASF
esthēs
dress
  • clothing, raiment, apparel
βασιλικὴν
G937 A-ASF
basilikos
regal (in relation), i.e., (literally) belonging to (or befitting) the sovereign (as land, dress, or a courtier), or (figuratively) preeminent
  • of or belong to a king, kingly, royal, regal
    • of a man, the officer or minister of a prince, a courtier
    subject to a king
    • of a country
    befitting or worthy of a king, royal"metaphorically principal, chief
καὶ
G2532 CONJ
kai
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
  • and, also, even, indeed, but
καθίσας
G2523 V-AAP-NSM
kathizō
to seat down, i.e., set (figuratively, appoint); intransitively, to sit (down); figuratively, to settle (hover, dwell)
  • to make to sit down
    • to set, appoint, to confer a kingdom on one
    intransitively
    • to sit down
    • "to sit
      • to have fixed one's abode
      • "to sojourn, to settle, settle down
ἐπὶ
G1909 PREP
epi
properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e., over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc
  • upon, on, at, by, before
  • "of position, on, at, by, over, against"to, over, on, at, across, against
τοῦ
G3588 T-GSN
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
  • this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than ___%___the___%___ counted
βήματος
G968 N-GSN
bēma
a step, i.e., foot-breath; by implication, a rostrum, i.e., a tribunal
  • a step, pace, the space which a foot covers, a foot-breath
  • "a raised place mounted by steps
    • a platform, tribune
      • of the official seat of a judge
      • "of the judgment seat of Christ"Herod built a structure resembling a throne at Caesarea, from which he viewed the games and made speeches to the people
ἐδημηγόρει
G1215 V-IAI-3S
dēmēgoreō
to be a people-gatherer, i.e., to address a public assembly
  • to address a public assembly, make a speech to the people
πρὸς
G4314 PREP
pros
a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of, i.e., near to; usually with the accusative case, the place, time, occasion, or respect, which is the destination of the relation, i.e., whither or for which it is predicated)
  • to the advantage of
  • "at, near, by"to, towards, with, with regard to
αὐτούς
G846 P-APM
autos
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
  • himself, herself, themselves, itself
  • "he, she, it"the same

τακτῇ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ Ἡρῴδης ἐνδυσάμενος ἐσθῆτα βασιλικὴν καὶ καθίσας ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος ἐδημηγόρει πρὸς αὐτούς
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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.