For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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δέ
Vocabulary form:
dev
Definition:
but, and
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.
Verse:
“δέ a second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Matt 22:39)
“You are the salt of the earth, δέ if salt has lost its taste, how will it be made salty again?” (Matt 5:13)
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 16:40 | So (de | δέ | conj) when they had left the prison, they went to Lydia’s house; and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and departed. |
| Acts 17:1 | Having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. |
| Acts 17:2 | And (de | δέ | conj) according to Paul’s custom, he went to them and for three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, |
| Acts 17:5 | But (de | δέ | conj) the Jews, moved by envy, recruited certain wicked men of the marketplace and, forming a mob, they set the city in an uproar. They attacked the house of Jason, trying to bring them out to the people. |
| Acts 17:6 | But (de | δέ | conj) when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some fellow believers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too, |
| Acts 17:8 | And (de | δέ | conj) they stirred up the people and the city authorities who heard these things. |
| Acts 17:10 | And (de | δέ | conj) the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas off by night to Berea. When they got there, they went to the synagogue of the Jews. |
| Acts 17:11 | These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day to see if these things were so. |
| Acts 17:13 | But (de | δέ | conj) when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that also in Berea the word of God was proclaimed by Paul, they came there too, inciting and stirring up the crowds. |
| Acts 17:14 | Then immediately the brothers sent Paul away, to go as far as to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. |
| Acts 17:15 | Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left. |
| Acts 17:16 | Now (de | δέ | conj) while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him on seeing the city full of idols. |
| Acts 17:18 | Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” for he was announcing the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. |
| Acts 17:21 | (Now (de | δέ | conj) all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time in nothing else than to tell or to hear something new.) |
| Acts 17:22 | So (de | δέ | conj) Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are a very devout people. |
| Acts 17:32 | Now (de | δέ | conj) when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but (de | δέ | particle) others said, “We will hear you again about this.” |
| Acts 17:34 | But (de | δέ | conj) some men joined him and believed; among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. |
| Acts 18:4 | And (de | δέ | conj) he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks. |
| Acts 18:5 | When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was wholly absorbed with preaching the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. |
| Acts 18:6 | But (de | δέ | conj) when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own head! I am guiltless. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” |
| Acts 18:8 | Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household; and many of the Corinthians upon hearing about it, believed and were baptized. |
| Acts 18:9 | And (de | δέ | conj) the Lord said to Paul during the night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, |
| Acts 18:11 | So (de | δέ | conj) he stayed there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God. |
| Acts 18:12 | But (de | δέ | conj) when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul and brought him before the tribunal, |
| Acts 18:14 | But (de | δέ | conj) when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or a serious piece of villainy, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you. |
| Acts 18:15 | But (de | δέ | conj) if the questions are about a word and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.” |
| Acts 18:17 | And (de | δέ | conj) they all took hold of Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the tribunal. But none of these things were of concern to Gallio. |
| Acts 18:18 | Paul, after remaining there for a number of days, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria, and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had his head shaved, for he had taken a vow. |
| Acts 18:19 | And (de | δέ | conj) they went to Ephesus, and he left them there but (de | δέ | conj) he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. |
| Acts 18:20 | When they asked him to stay a longer time, he would not consent |
| Acts 18:24 | Now (de | δέ | conj) a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well-versed in the Scriptures. |
| Acts 18:26 | He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but (de | δέ | conj) when they heard him, Priscilla and Aquila took him and explained more accurately to him the way of God. |
| Acts 18:27 | And (de | δέ | conj) when he wanted to continue on into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived there, he greatly helped those who had come to believe through grace, |
| Acts 19:1 | And (de | δέ | conj) it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples |
| Acts 19:2 | and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “Why, we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit.” |
| Acts 19:3 | So Paul asked, “Into what then were you baptized?” And (de | δέ | conj) they replied, “Into the baptism of John.” |
| Acts 19:4 | Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” |
| Acts 19:5 | Upon hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. |
| Acts 19:7 | And (de | δέ | conj) the men were in all about twelve. |
| Acts 19:8 | And (de | δέ | conj) he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them concerning the things of the kingdom of God. |
| Acts 19:9 | But (de | δέ | conj) when some became stubborn and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and continued daily to discourse in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. |
| Acts 19:10 | This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. |
| Acts 19:13 | But (de | δέ | conj) some also of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” |
| Acts 19:14 | There were seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, who were doing this. |
| Acts 19:15 | But (de | δέ | conj) the evil spirit answering said to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but (de | δέ | conj) who are you?” |
| Acts 19:17 | And (de | δέ | conj) this became known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived in Ephesus. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted. |
| Acts 19:19 | And (de | δέ | conj) a number of those who had practiced magic arts collected their books and burned them up in the sight of all. And they calculated the value of them and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. |
| Acts 19:21 | Now (de | δέ | conj) after all these things had taken place, Paul resolved in spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and on to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” |
| Acts 19:22 | So (de | δέ | conj) after sending to Macedonia two of those who were helping him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed for a time in Asia. |
| Acts 19:23 | About that time there broke out no little disturbance concerning the Way. |
Mnemonics
The debut of the Andes
The debut of the Andes mountain climber!
de mnemonic
I watched | de | movie, | but | I didn't read | de | book.