Acts 16:35

Ἡμέρας δὲ γενομένης ἀπέστειλαν οἱ στρατηγοὶ τοὺς ῥαβδούχους λέγοντες Ἀπόλυσον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐκείνους
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
Word Reference
Original Word Definitions
Ἡμέρας
G2250 N-GSF
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.
δὲ
G1161 CONJ
de
but, and, etc
  • but, moreover, and, etc.
γενομένης
G1096 V-2ADP-GSF
ginomai
to cause to be (___%___gen___%___-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
  • to become, i.e., to come into existence, begin to be, receive being
    • "to become, i.e., to come to pass, happen
    • of events
    to arise, appear in history, come upon the stage
    • of men appearing in public
    to be made, finished
    • of miracles, to be performed, wrought
    to become, be made
ἀπέστειλαν
G649 V-AAI-3P
apostellō
set apart, i.e., (by implication) to send out (properly, on a mission) literally or figuratively
  • to order (one) to go to a place appointed
    • "to send away, dismiss
    • to allow one to depart, that he may be in a state of liberty
      • "to order one to depart, send off"to drive away
οἱ
G3588 T-NPM
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
  • this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than ___%___the___%___ counted
στρατηγοὶ
G4755 N-NPM
stratēgos
a general, i.e., (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (praetor), the chief (praefect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens
  • the commander of an army
    • "in the New Testament a civic commander, a governor
    • the name the highest magistrate in the municipia or colonies; they had the power of administering justice in the less important cases
      • "of civil magistrates
    captain of the temple, i.e., the commander of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple
τοὺς
G3588 T-APM
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
  • this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than ___%___the___%___ counted
ῥαβδούχους
G4465 N-APM
rhabdouchos
a rod- (the Latin fasces) holder, i.e., a Roman lictor (constable or executioner)
  • one who carries the rods i.e., the fasces
    • "a lictor, a public official who bore the fasces or staff and other insignia of office before a magistrate
λέγοντες
G3004 V-PAP-NPM
legō
properly, to ___%___lay___%___ forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas G2036 and G5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 is properly to break silence merely, and G2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean
  • to say, to speak
    • affirm over, maintain
      • "to teach"to exhort, advise, to command, direct"to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say"to call by name, to call, name"to speak out, speak of, mention
Ἀπόλυσον
G630
apolyō
to free fully, i.e., (literally) relieve, release, dismiss (reflexively, depart), or (figuratively) let die, pardon or (specially) divorce
  • to set free
    • "to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)
    • a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer
      • "to bid depart, send away
    to let go free, release
    • a captive i.e., to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart
      • "to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty"indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart"to release a debtor, i.e., not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt
    used of divorce, to dismiss from the house, to repudiate"to send one's self away, to depart
τοὺς
G3588 T-APM
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
  • this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than ___%___the___%___ counted
ἀνθρώπους
G444 N-APM
anthrōpos
man-faced, i.e., a human being
  • a human being, whether male or female
    • generically, to include all human individuals
      • "to distinguish man from beings of a different race or order
      • of animals and plants
        • "of from God and Christ"of the angels
      with the added notion of weakness, by which man is led into a mistake or prompted to sin"with the adjunct notion of contempt or disdainful pity"with reference to two fold nature of man, body and soul"with reference to the two fold nature of man, the corrupt and the truly Christian man, conformed to the nature of God"with reference to sex, a male
    indefinitely, someone, a man, one"in the plural, people"joined with other words, merchantman
ἐκείνους
G1565 D-APM
ekeinos
that one (or (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed
  • he, she it, etc.

Ἡμέρας δὲ γενομένης ἀπέστειλαν οἱ στρατηγοὶ τοὺς ῥαβδούχους λέγοντες Ἀπόλυσον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐκείνους
35
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
Cross References

Psalms 76:10

כִּֽי-חֲמַת אָדָם תּוֹדֶךָּ שְׁאֵרִית חֵמֹת תַּחְגֹּֽר׃
10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Acts 4:21

οἱ δὲ προσαπειλησάμενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς μηδὲν εὑρίσκοντες τὸ πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς διὰ τὸν λαόν ὅτι πάντες ἐδόξαζον τὸν θεὸν ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονότι·
21
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

Acts 5:40

ἐπείσθησαν δέ αὐτῷ καὶ προσκαλεσάμενοι τοὺς ἀποστόλους δείραντες παρήγγειλαν μὴ λαλεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Ἰησοῦ καὶ ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς
40
And 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.

Jeremiah 5:22

הַאוֹתִי לֹא-תִירָאוּ נְאֻם-יְהוָֹה אִם מִפָּנַי לֹא תָחִילוּ אֲשֶׁר-שַׂמְתִּי חוֹל גְּבוּל לַיָּם חָק-עוֹלָם וְלֹא יַעַבְרֶנְהוּ וַיִּֽתְגָּעֲשׁוּ וְלֹא יוּכָלוּ וְהָמוּ גַלָּיו וְלֹא יַעַבְרֻֽנְהוּ׃
22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
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