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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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
PER-gês
- 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 context — Acts 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.