Acts 9:37Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died. Whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
εγενετο δε εν ταις ημεραις εκειναις ασθενησασαν αυτην αποθανειν λουσαντες δε αυτην εθηκαν εν υπερωω
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Acts 1:13And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of James.
- Acts 20:8And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where we were assembled.
- Mark 14:15And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there prepare ye for us.
- John 11:3His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
- John 11:4And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
- John 11:36The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.
- John 11:37But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man born blind have caused that this man should not die?
- Acts 9:39And Peter rising up went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him, weeping and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.
The original text
Greek text, 15 words with lemma, transliteration and Strong’s number. Tap to expand.
- ἐγένετοegenetoI come into beingG1096 · γίνομαι
- δὲdebutG1161 · δέ
- ἐνeninG1722 · ἐν
- ταῖςtaistheG3588 · ὁ
- ἡμέραιςhēmeraisa dayG2250 · ἡμέρα
- ἐκείναιςekeinaisthatG1565 · ἐκεῖνος
- ἀσθενήσασανasthenēsasanI am weakG770 · ἀσθενέω
- αὐτὴνautēnheG846 · αὐτός
- ἀποθανεῖνapothaneinI am dyingG599 · ἀποθνήσκω
- λούσαντεςlousantesI washG3068 · λούω
- δὲdebutG1161 · δέ
- ἔθηκανethēkanI putG5087 · τίθημι
- αὐτὴνautēnheG846 · αὐτός
- ἐνeninG1722 · ἐν
- ὑπερῴῳhyperōōan upper roomG5253 · ὑπερῷον