Acts 13:14:6Acts.13.14.W6TAB

Πέργης

pergês

Perga

Transliteration
PER-gês
Extended
PEHR-gêhs
IPA
/ˈper.gɛːs/

Meaning by language

English
Perga

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Result
Πέρ + γης
per + gês
pergês

Alphabet Analysis

Pip — as in pet
Epsilone — as in met (short)
Rhor — rolled r
Gammagh — guttural
Etai — as in machine
Sigma (final)s — used only at end of words

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Word in context

  1. word

    PER-gês

  2. sentence

    au-TOI de di-el-THON-tes a-PO tês PER-gês pa-re-GHE-non-to eis an-ti-O-khe-an tên pi-si-DI-an kai eis-el-THON-tes eis tên sy-na-gô-GÊN têi hê-ME-ra tôn sab-BA-tôn e-KA-thi-san

Exegesis

The aorist participle dielthontes {διελθόντες | di-el-thón-tes} 'having traveled' introduces a circumstantial clause of prior movement, governed by apo {ἀπὸ | apó} 'from' with its genitive complement Pérgēs {Πέργης | Pér-gēs} 'Perga' indicating departure.

Root and etymology

gegamma–eta

land, earth

In contextActs 13:14

But they, having traveled from Perga, arrived at Antioch in Pisidia, and having entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day , they sat down.

About this coordinate

Acts 13:14:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Acts 13:14, so the Greek word Πέργης (pergês) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.13.14.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.13.14.W6.S1) and character.