Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

τε

Vocabulary form: 
te
Definition: 

and (so), so

Frequency: 
215
GK: 
5445
Mnemonic Singing: 

And to the earth it gave great light,
and so it continued both day and night.

Notes: 

te is a postpositive and weaker in force than kaiv.

Biblical Concordance

Acts 20:3 He spent three months there, and when a plot was hatched against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week, when we had gathered to break bread, Paul addressed them, and since he intended to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight.
Acts 20:11 Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he spoke with them a considerable time, until dawn, and so he departed.
Acts 20:21 testifying both (te | τε | conj) to Jews and to Greeks about repentance toward God and about faith in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 20:35 In all this I have shown you that by working in this way you must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Acts 21:12 When we heard this, both (te | τε | conj) we and the local people urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:18 On the following day Paul went with us to James, and (te | τε | conj) all the elders were present.
Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they began to praise God. And (te | τε | conj) they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law.
Acts 21:25 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Acts 21:28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. And (te | τε | conj) besides, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has made this holy place unclean.”
Acts 21:30 Then (te | τε | conj) all the city was stirred up, and a mob of people quickly formed. They seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.
Acts 21:31 And (te | τε | conj) while they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the detachment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 21:37 As he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the commanding officer, “Is it allowed for me to say something to you?” He replied, “Do you know Greek?
Acts 22:4 I persecuted the followers of this Way even to their death, putting in chains both (te | τε | conj) men and women and delivering them to prison,
Acts 22:7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
Acts 22:8 And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And (te | τε | conj) he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’
Acts 22:23 While they were crying out and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust in the air,
Acts 23:5 And (te | τε | conj) Paul said, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”
Acts 23:10 And when the argument became violent, the commanding officer, afraid that Paul would be torn apart by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and (te | τε | conj) bring him into the barracks.
Acts 23:24 And (te | τε | conj) he told them to provide mounts so that having put Paul on them they might bring him safely to Felix the governor.
Acts 23:28 And (te | τε | conj) wanting to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council.
Acts 24:3 in every way and everywhere we accept them, most excellent Felix, with all gratitude.
Acts 24:5 For we found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and (te | τε | conj) a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 24:10 And (te | τε | conj) Paul responded, when the governor motioned to him to speak: “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, gladly do I make my own defense concerning these things.
Acts 24:15 having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there is to be a resurrection both (te | τε | conj) of the just and of the unjust.
Acts 24:23 Then he commanded the centurion to keep him in custody, but (te | τε | conj) to let him have some freedom and not to prevent any of his friends from taking care of his needs.
Acts 24:27 When two years had passed, Felix was replaced by Porcius Festus, and (te | τε | conj) wanting to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in prison.
Acts 25:2 So (te | τε | conj) the chief priests and the Jewish leaders brought formal charges against Paul, begging him
Acts 25:16 I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to turn anyone over before the accused has met the accusers face to face and (te | τε | conj) had an opportunity to make his defense against the charge.
Acts 25:23 So on the next day when Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall along with the commanding officers and the prominent men of the city, and when Festus had given the order, Paul was brought in.
Acts 25:24 And Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both (te | τε | conj) in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts 26:3 especially because you are well acquainted with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
Acts 26:4 All the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which from the beginning was spent among my own people in Jerusalem,
Acts 26:10 And I did so in Jerusalem; not (te | τε | conj) only (te | τε | conj) did I lock up in prison many of the saints, after receiving authority from the chief priests, and (te | τε | conj) when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
Acts 26:11 And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and (te | τε | conj) since I was so vehemently angry at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.
Acts 26:14 And (te | τε | conj) when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
Acts 26:16 But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a servant and witness both (te | τε | conj) to the things in which you have seen and (te | τε | conj) to those in which I will appear to you.
Acts 26:20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, then (te | τε | conj) also to those in Jerusalem and (te | τε | conj) through all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing works worthy of repentance.
Acts 26:22 Obtaining help, therefore, from God, until this day I have stood testifying both (te | τε | conj) to small and great, saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:
Acts 26:23 that the Christ was to suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both (te | τε | conj) to our people and to the Gentiles.”
Acts 26:30 Then (te | τε | conj) the king stood up, and the governor and (te | τε | conj) Bernice and those sitting with them;
Acts 27:1 And 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 27:3 The next day we put in at Sidon; and (te | τε | conj) Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends and be cared for.
Acts 27:5 And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
Acts 27:8 Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city Lasea.
Acts 27:17 After hoisting it up, they passed cables under the ship to hold it together. Then (te | τε | conj), fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, and thus they let the ship be driven along.
Acts 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and (te | τε | conj) no small storm continued to rage, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
Acts 27:21 Since they had long been without food, Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice and not set sail from Crete and (te | τε | conj) incurred this injury and loss.
Acts 27:29 Fearing that we might run aground on the rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
Acts 27:43 But the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life, prevented them from carrying out their plan; and (te | τε | conj) he ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the land,

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