Acts 28:18

οἵτινες ἀνακρίναντές με ἐβούλοντο ἀπολῦσαι διὰ τὸ μηδεμίαν αἰτίαν θανάτου ὑπάρχειν ἐν ἐμοί·
Who, when they had examined me, would have let go, me because there was no cause of death in me.
Word Reference
Original Word Definitions
οἵτινες
G3748 R-NPM
hostis
which some, i.e., any that; also (definite) which same
  • whoever, whatever, who
ἀνακρίναντές
G350 V-AAP-NPM
anakrinō
properly, to scrutinize, i.e., (by implication) investigate, interrogate, determine
  • examine or judge
    • to investigate, examine, enquire into, scrutinise, sift, question
      • specifically in a forensic sense of a judge to hold an investigation
        • "to interrogate, examine the accused or witnesses
      to judge of, estimate, determine (the excellence or defects of any person or thing
με
G3165
me
me
  • I, me, my, etc.
ἐβούλοντο
G1014 V-INI-3P
boulomai
to ___%___will,___%___ i.e., (reflexively) be willing
  • to will deliberately, have a purpose, be minded
    • "of willing as an affection, to desire
ἀπολῦσαι
G630 V-AAN
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
διὰ
G1223 PREP
dia
through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)
  • through
    • of place
      • with
        • "in
      of time
      • throughout
        • "during
      of means
      • by
        • "by the means of
    through
    • the ground or reason by which something is or is not done
      • by reason of
        • "on account of"because of for this reason"therefore"on this account
τὸ
G3588 T-ASN
ho
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
  • this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than ___%___the___%___ counted
μηδεμίαν
G3367 A-ASF
mēdeis
not even one (man, woman, thing)
  • nobody, no one, nothing
αἰτίαν
G156 N-ASF
aitia
a cause (as if asked for), i.e., (logical) reason (motive, matter), (legal) crime (alleged or proved)
  • cause, reason
    • "cause for which one is worthy of punishment, crime"charge of crime, accusation
θανάτου
G2288 N-GSM
thanatos
(properly, an adjective used as a noun) death (literally or figuratively)
  • the death of the body
    • that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
      • "with the implied idea of future misery in hell
      • the power of death
      since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness i.e., figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin
    metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
    • the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
    the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell"in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell
ὑπάρχειν
G5225 V-PAN
hyparchō
to begin under (quietly), i.e., come into existence (be present or at hand); expletively, to exist (as copula or subordinate to an adjective, participle, adverb or preposition, or as an auxiliary to a principal (verb)
  • to begin below, to make a beginning
    • to begin
    to come forth, hence to be there, be ready, be at hand"to be
ἐν
G1722 PREP
en
___%___in,___%___ at, (up-)on, by, etc
  • in, by, with
ἐμοί·
G1698
emoi
to me
  • I, me, myself, etc.

οἵτινες ἀνακρίναντές με ἐβούλοντο ἀπολῦσαι διὰ τὸ μηδεμίαν αἰτίαν θανάτου ὑπάρχειν ἐν ἐμοί·
18
Who, when they had examined me, would have let go, me because there was no cause of death in me.
Cross References

Acts 26:31

καὶ ἀναχωρήσαντες ἐλάλουν πρὸς ἀλλήλους λέγοντες ὅτι Οὐδὲν θανάτου ἄξιον ἢ δεσμῶν πράσσει ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος
31
And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

Acts 23:29

ὃν εὗρον ἐγκαλούμενον περὶ ζητημάτων τοῦ νόμου αὐτῶν μηδὲν δὲ ἄξιον θανάτου ἢ δεσμῶν ἔγκλημα ἔχοντα
29
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

Acts 22:24

ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν ὁ χιλίαρχος ἄγεσθαι εἰς τὴν παρεμβολήν εἰπὼν μάστιξιν ἀνετάζεσθαι αὐτὸν ἵνα ἐπιγνῷ δι' ἣν αἰτίαν οὕτως ἐπεφώνουν αὐτῷ
24
The 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.

Acts 22:30

Τῇ δὲ ἐπαύριον βουλόμενος γνῶναι τὸ ἀσφαλὲς τὸ τί κατηγορεῖται παρὰ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἔλυσεν αὐτόν ἀπὸ τῶν δεσμῶν καὶ ἐκέλευσεν ἐλθεῖν τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ ὅλον τὸ συνέδριον αὐτῶν καὶ καταγαγὼν τὸν Παῦλον ἔστησεν εἰς αὐτούς
30
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought down, Paul and set him before them.

Acts 24:10

Ἀπεκρίθη δέ ὁ Παῦλος νεύσαντος αὐτῷ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος λέγειν Ἐκ πολλῶν ἐτῶν ὄντα σε κριτὴν τῷ ἔθνει τούτῳ ἐπιστάμενος εὐθύμοτερον τὰ περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ ἀπολογοῦμαι
10
Then after that Paul, the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully for answer myself:

Acts 24:22

Ἀκούσας δὲ ταῦτα ὁ Φῆλιξ Ἀνεβάλετο αὐτοὺς ἀκριβέστερον εἰδὼς τὰ περὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ εἴπων Ὅταν Λυσίας ὁ χιλίαρχος καταβῇ διαγνώσομαι τὰ καθ' ὑμᾶς·
22
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.

Acts 25:7

παραγενομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ περιέστησαν οἱ ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων καταβεβηκότες Ἰουδαῖοι πολλὰ καὶ βαρέα αἰτιάματα φέροντες κατὰ τοῦ Παῦλου ἃ οὐκ ἴσχυον ἀποδεῖξαι
7
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
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