Acts 16:39
Strong's Lexicon
They came
ἐλθόντες (elthontes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2064: To come, go.

to appease
παρεκάλεσαν (parekalesan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

them
αὐτούς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

led them out,
ἐξαγαγόντες (exagagontes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 1806: To lead out, sometimes to death, execution. From ek and ago; to lead forth.

requesting
ἠρώτων (ērōtōn)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2065: Apparently from ereo; to interrogate; by implication, to request.

that they leave
ἀπελθεῖν (apelthein)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 565: From apo and erchomai; to go off, aside or behind, literally or figuratively.

ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

city.
πόλεως (poleōs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 4172: A city, the inhabitants of a city. Probably from the same as polemos, or perhaps from polus; a town.

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.

Young's Literal Translation
and having come, they besought them, and having brought [them] forth, they were asking [them] to go forth from the city;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So they came and apologized to them, and escorting them out, they urged them to leave town.

New American Standard Bible
and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

King James Bible
And they came and besought them, and brought [them] out, and desired [them] to depart out of the city.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.

New Living Translation
So they came to the jail and apologized to them. Then they brought them out and begged them to leave the city.

English Standard Version
So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.

New American Standard Bible
and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

King James Bible
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So they came and apologized to them, and escorting them out, they urged them to leave town.

International Standard Version
So the magistrates came, apologized to them, and escorted them out. Then they asked them to leave the city.

NET Bible
and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

American Standard Version
and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.

English Revised Version
and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.

Young's Literal Translation
and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;
















Cross References
Matthew 8:34
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.

Mark 5:17
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

Acts 1:1
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Acts 16:38
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

Acts 16:37
But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

Acts 16:36
And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.

Acts 16:40
And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

Acts 17:1
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

Acts 17:2
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
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