Acts 13:21:2Acts.13.21.W2TAB
ᾐτήσαντο
êitêsanto
“they asked”
- Transliteration
- êi-TÊ-san-to
- Extended
- êi-TÊ-sahn-toh
- IPA
- /ɛːiˈtɛː.san.to/
Meaning by language
- English
- they asked
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) |
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The word
Word in context
- word
êi-TÊ-san-to
- sentence
ka-KEI-then êi-TÊ-san-to ba-si-LE-a kai E-dō-ken au-TOIS ho the-OS ton sa-OUL hy-ON KIS AN-dra ek phy-LÊS be-ni-a-MIN E-tê tes-se-RA-kon-ta
Exegesis
The verse is a single narrative sentence built around two coordinated aorist verbs, ēitēsanto {ᾐτήσαντο | ēitḗsanto} ‘they requested’ and edōken {ἔδωκεν | édōken} ‘He gave.’
In context — Acts 13:21
And from there they requested a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years .
About this coordinate
Acts 13:21:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Acts 13:21, so the Greek word ᾐτήσαντο (êitêsanto) 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.13.21.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.13.21.W2.S1) and character.