A deed or action is something done, while this Greek noun can also identify the function of a member in Paul's body comparison. Luke says that Joseph of Arimathea had not consented to the Council's decision or action, carefully distinguishing one member from what the group did.
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A deed or action is something done, while this Greek noun can also identify the function of a member in Paul's body comparison. Luke says that Joseph of Arimathea had not consented to the Council's decision or action, carefully distinguishing one member from what the group did.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include deeds (2), action (1), function (1), has done (1), practices (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 16:27. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (2), Acts (1), Colossians (1), Luke (1).
A deed or action is something done, while this Greek noun can also identify the function of a member in Paul's body comparison. Luke says that Joseph of Arimathea had not consented to the Council's decision or action, carefully distinguishing one member from what the group did. Acts reports believers confessing and disclosing their deeds in Ephesus. Romans explains that members of one body do not all have the same function before describing different gifts.
These settings include rejected participation, acknowledged conduct and differentiated service. The word therefore does not make every action wicked or every different function a lower spiritual rank. Read the agent, the assessed conduct and the argument in each passage. Accountability concerns actual deeds, and shared belonging does not require every member to perform an identical task.
Joseph's nonconsent, disclosed deeds at Ephesus and different functions in one body preserve distinct kinds of action. Moral assessment and communal belonging come from the surrounding account or argument, not from one fixed judgment attached to the noun.
Who had not consented to their decision or action. He was from the Judean town of Arimathea and was waiting for the kingdom of God.
Luke explicitly says Joseph had not consented to the Council's decision or action, then reports his request for Jesus' body; membership must not erase that stated distinction.
Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
Believers come forward confessing and disclosing their deeds, followed by the stated abandonment of magic arts; the scene identifies conduct rather than prescribing coerced disclosure of private harm.
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function,
The body's members do not all have the same function, and Paul immediately connects that distinction with belonging to one another in Christ and different gifts of grace.
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Greek word. Concrete deed or practice, especially wicked actions; emphasizes behavior over mere intention
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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Luke's account takes care to distinguish Joseph from the Council's decision and action. His membership is stated, but so is his nonconsent and his subsequent request to bury Jesus. A teacher who assigns the group's conduct to every member would erase that narrated distinction. Acts then shows believers acknowledging deeds in a particular Ephesian setting, while Romans uses the noun for different functions within a single body.
The movement from morally assessed deeds to differentiated service prevents the word from becoming a fixed label of wrongdoing. Elsewhere, Romans calls for putting the body's deeds to death by the Spirit; the target is the conduct, not physical injury to the body. Each setting therefore supplies its own assessment and response. Accountability should attend to what was actually done, while shared life in Christ must retain both mutual belonging and the grace that supplies different gifts.
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The licensed Greek range includes deeds or practices and an action or function, with Romans 12:4 supplying the function setting. Wicked conduct is specified by particular contexts rather than required by every occurrence. The Hebrew concrete-work comparison remains a separate lexical identity rather than a merged cross-language meaning.
Jeremiah 22:13-16 assesses an actual palace project by its injustice toward unpaid workers, while Proverbs 24:28-29 rejects deceptive testimony and private repayment. These Hebrew settings can illuminate attention to concrete conduct without identifying them as the same Greek word or replacing the distinct arguments about confession, participation and mutual service.