Acts 4:37

ὑπάρχοντος αὐτῷ ἀγροῦ, πωλήσας ἤνεγκε τὸ χρῆμα, καὶ ἔθηκε παρὰ τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων.

RBT Greek Interlinear:

Strongs 5225; hyparchontos; ὑπάρχοντος; he who is present; V-PPA-GMS

Strongs 846; autō; αὐτῷ; self/itself/himself; PPro-DM/N3S

Strongs 68; agrou; ἀγροῦ; a field; N-GMS

Strongs 4453; pōlēsas; πωλήσας; he who has sold; V-APA-NMS

Strongs 5342; ēnenken; ἤνεγκεν; bore; V-AIA-3S

Strongs 3588; to; τὸ; the; Art-ANS

Strongs 5536; chrēma; χρῆμα; money; N-ANS

Strongs 2532; kai; καὶ; and; Conj

Strongs 5087; ethēken; ἔθηκεν; he placed; V-AIA-3S

Strongs 4314; pros; πρὸς; toward; Prep

Strongs 3588; tous; τοὺς; the; Art-AMP

Strongs 4228; podas; πόδας; feet; N-AMP

Strongs 3588; tōn; τῶν; the; Art-GMP

Strongs 652; apostolōn; ἀποστόλων; sent away ones; N-GMP

RBT Translation:

of a field pre-existing to self, he who has sold, carried the Riches and placed toward the Feet of the Sent Away Ones.¹⁹

making many rich

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
None

LITV Translation:
a field being his, selling it , he bore the proceeds and placed them at the feet of the apostles.

Footnotes

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The aorist active participle πωλήσας (“having sold”) in the phrase ὑπάρχοντος αὐτῷ ἀγροῦ πωλήσας appears without an expressed accusative object, which is typically expected as the direct object of πωλέω (“to sell”). Instead, the phrase employs a genitive absolute construction (ὑπάρχοντος αὐτῷ ἀγροῦ) indicating possession or existence of a field “to him/self.”

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Any English translation that inserts an explicit object such as “it” or phrases like “sold a field” or “having sold a field” in rendering πωλήσας without an accusative in the original Greek is introducing an object that does not grammatically appear in the text.

• The Greek participle πωλήσας "he who sold" here stands without an expressed accusative object.

• The noun ἀγροῦ is in the genitive, part of the genitive absolute phrase indicating possession, not the accusative object of selling.

• Therefore, rendering the participle as “having sold the field” involves a false grammatical assumption or interpretive addition rather than a literal translation.