For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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δέ (δ᾽)
Vocabulary form:
δέ
Definition:
and; but
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
2,792
GK:
1254
Mnemonic Singing:
Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
hat saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see.
Notes:
dev is a postpositive. This means that it cannot be the first word in a sentence or clause, even though in your translation it is the first word. It usually is the second word and sometimes the third, e.g., oJ de; ei\pon ....
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 25:6 | After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he took his seat on the judge’s bench and ordered Paul to be brought. |
| Acts 25:7 | When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him, which they were not able to prove. |
| Acts 25:9 | But (de | δέ | conj) Festus, wanting to curry favor with the Jews, responded to Paul, saying, “Do you want to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?” |
| Acts 25:10 | Paul answered, “I am now standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. Against the Jews I have done nothing wrong, as you yourself know very well. |
| Acts 25:11 | If then I am a wrongdoer and have done anything worthy of death, I am not trying to escape death; but (de | δέ | conj) if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one has a right to turn me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.” |
| Acts 25:13 | Now (de | δέ | conj) after some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus. |
| Acts 25:14 | Since they were staying there several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man left by Felix, a prisoner. |
| Acts 25:19 | but (de | δέ | conj) had certain questions about their own religion to put to him and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive. |
| Acts 25:20 | Since I was uncertain about how to investigate such questions, I asked if he wanted to go to Jerusalem to be tried there on these charges. |
| Acts 25:21 | But (de | δέ | conj) when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.” |
| Acts 25:22 | Then (de | δέ | conj) Agrippa said to Festus, “I too would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” said he, “you will hear him.” |
| Acts 25:25 | But (de | δέ | conj) I found that he had done nothing worthy of death; and (de | δέ | conj) since he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to send him. |
| Acts 26:1 | So (de | δέ | conj) Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began to make his defense: |
| Acts 26:15 | And (de | δέ | conj) I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And (de | δέ | conj) the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. |
| Acts 26:24 | As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Much learning is driving you insane!” |
| Acts 26:25 | But (de | δέ | conj) Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but true and rational are the words that I declare. |
| Acts 26:28 | Then (de | δέ | conj) Agrippa said to Paul, “In too short a time you believe you are making a Christian of me.” |
| Acts 26:29 | Paul replied, “I would to God that whether the time be short or long, not only you but also all those who are listening to me today would also become as I am, apart for these chains.” |
| Acts 26:32 | And (de | δέ | conj) Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.” |
| Acts 27:1 | And (de | δέ | conj) when it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort. |
| Acts 27:2 | And (de | δέ | conj) embarking on a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica was with us. |
| Acts 27:7 | We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. |
| Acts 27:9 | Since (de | δέ | conj) considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them, |
| Acts 27:11 | But (de | δέ | conj) the centurion was more convinced by the captain and the ship’s owner than by what Paul was saying. |
| Acts 27:12 | And (de | δέ | conj) since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority made a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they might be able to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there. |
| Acts 27:13 | Now (de | δέ | conj) when the south wind blew gently, thinking that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore. |
| Acts 27:14 | But (de | δέ | conj) soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete. |
| Acts 27:15 | And (de | δέ | conj) when the ship was caught by it and could not head into the wind, we gave way and allowed ourselves to be driven along. |
| Acts 27:16 | Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the dinghy under control. |
| Acts 27:18 | Since we were being pounded so violently by the storm, the next day they began to throw cargo overboard; |
| Acts 27:20 | When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm continued to rage, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. |
| Acts 27:26 | But (de | δέ | conj) we must run aground on some island.” |
| Acts 27:27 | And (de | δέ | conj) when it was the fourteenth night, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. |
| Acts 27:28 | So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; and (de | δέ | conj) after a short distance they took soundings again and found fifteen fathoms. |
| Acts 27:30 | But (de | δέ | conj) when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the dinghy into the sea pretending they intended to let down anchors from the bow, |
| Acts 27:33 | As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and been without food, having taken nothing. |
| Acts 27:35 | And (de | δέ | conj) when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God before them all, he broke it and began to eat. |
| Acts 27:36 | So (de | δέ | conj) everyone was encouraged and they themselves took food. |
| Acts 27:37 | We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship. |
| Acts 27:38 | And (de | δέ | conj) when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing the wheat out into the sea. |
| Acts 27:39 | Now (de | δέ | conj) when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but (de | δέ | conj) they noticed a bay that had a beach, on which they planned, if possible, to run the ship ashore. |
| Acts 27:41 | But (de | δέ | conj) caught in some crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, but (de | δέ | conj) the stern began to break up by the force of the waves. |
| Acts 27:42 | It was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, so none could escape by swimming away. |
| Acts 27:43 | But (de | δέ | conj) the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life, prevented them from carrying out their plan; and he ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the land, |
| Acts 27:44 | and the rest, some on planks and (de | δέ | particle) others on pieces of the ship. And so it came about that all escaped safely to the land. |
| Acts 28:3 | When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out from the heat and fastened onto his hand. |
| Acts 28:4 | When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “Certainly this man is a murderer, and though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.” |
| Acts 28:6 | They were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but (de | δέ | conj) when they waited a long time and saw no misfortune happen to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god. |
| Acts 28:7 | Now (de | δέ | conj) in the region around that place were fields belonging to the leading man of the island, by name Publius, who welcomed us and for three days entertained us hospitably. |
| Acts 28:8 | It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with bouts of fever and with dysentery. Paul visited him, and when he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him. |