Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners: lest any of them, when he had swum out, should flee away.

New American Standard Bible

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

King James Version

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Holman Bible

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.

International Standard Version

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping,

A Conservative Version

And a decision of the soldiers developed that they should kill the prisoners, lest any man, having swam away, might escape.

American Standard Version

And the soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them'should swim out, and escape.

Amplified

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;

An Understandable Version

[Meanwhile] the soldiers had decided to kill the prisoners so that none of them would swim away and escape.

Anderson New Testament

The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest some of them should swim out and escape.

Bible in Basic English

Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming.

Common New Testament

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape.

Daniel Mace New Testament

the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion,

Darby Translation

And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.

Godbey New Testament

And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one, having outswum them, might escape:

Goodspeed New Testament

The soldiers proposed to kill the prisoners, for fear some of them might swim ashore and escape,

John Wesley New Testament

And the counsel of the soldiers was, to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim away and escape.

Julia Smith Translation

And the soldiers' counsel was that they kill the prisoners, lest any, having swum away, may escape.

King James 2000

And the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now the plan of the soldiers was that they would kill the prisoners lest any escape [by] swimming away,

Modern King James verseion

And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.

Moffatt New Testament

Now the soldiers resolved to kill the prisoners, in case any of them swam off and escaped;

Montgomery New Testament

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.

NET Bible

Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

New Heart English Bible

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

Noyes New Testament

And on the part of the soldiers there was a plan to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim out and escape.

Sawyer New Testament

And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that none might escape by swimming;

The Emphasized Bible

Now, the soldiers counsel, turned out to be, that they should kill, the prisoners, lest any one should swim out and escape;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Then the soldiers' design was to have murdered the prisoners, lest any of them should swim ashore and escape.

Twentieth Century New Testament

The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, for fear that any of them should swim away and make their escape.

Webster

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Weymouth New Testament

Now the soldiers recommended that the prisoners should be killed, for fear some one of them might swim ashore and effect his escape.

Williams New Testament

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners, to keep any of them from swimming ashore and escaping,

World English Bible

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

Worrell New Testament

Now it was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any one, swimming out, might escape.

Worsley New Testament

And the counsel of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, least any of them should swim out and escape.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

the soldiers'
στρατιώτης 
Stratiotes 
Usage: 26

βουλή 
Boule 
counsel, will, advise
Usage: 12

was
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

to
ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

ἀποκτείνω 
Apokteino 
Usage: 40

the prisoners
δεσμώτης 
Desmotes 
Usage: 2

μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

any
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

ἐκκολυμβάω 
Ekkolumbao 
Usage: 1

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

The Shipwreck

41 But they chanced on a place, which had the sea on both the sides, and thrust in the ship. And the fore part stuck fast, and moved not, but the hinder part brake with the violence of the waves. 42 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners: lest any of them, when he had swum out, should flee away. 43 But the under-captain, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they that could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and escape to land.


Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Look upon the covenant, for the dark houses of the earth are full of wickedness.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his cattle; but the ungodly have cruel hearts.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

Mark 15:15-20

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas; And delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, for to be crucified.

Luke 23:40-41

The others answered and rebuked him, saying, "Neither fearest thou God because thou art in the same damnation?

Acts 12:19

When Herod had called for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded them to depart. And he descended from Jewry to Caesarea, and there abode.

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