Bible Verse Dictionary
John 5:16 - Because
Verse | Strongs No. | Greek | |
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And | G2532 | καί |
[Conjunction] and also: even so: then too etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words |
therefore | G1223 | διά |
[Preposition] through (in very wide applications local causal or occasional). In composition it retains the same general import |
did the | G3588 | ὁ |
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom) |
Jews | G2453 | Ἰουδαῖος |
[Adjective] udaean that is belonging to Jehudah |
persecute | G1377 | διώκω |
[Verb] compare the base of G1169 and G1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication to persecute |
Jesus | G2424 | Ἰησοῦς |
[Noun Masculine] Jesus (that is Jehoshua) the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites |
and | G2532 | καί |
[Conjunction] and also: even so: then too etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words |
sought | G2212 | ζητέω |
[Verb] to seek (literally or figuratively); specifically (by Hebraism) to worship (God) or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life) |
to slay | G615 | ἀποκτείνω |
[Verb] to kill outright; figuratively to destroy |
him | G846 | αὐτός |
backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons |
because | G3754 | ὅτι |
[Conjunction] demonstrative that (sometimes redundant); causatively because |
he had done | G4160 | ποιέω |
[Verb] to make or do (in a very wide application more or less direct) |
these things | G5023 | ταῦτα |
these things |
on | G1722 | ἐν |
[Preposition]
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the | G3588 | ὁ |
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom) |
sabbath day | G4521 | σάββατον |
[Noun Neuter] the Sabbath (that is Shabbath) or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se'nnight that is the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.