Acts 14:25:2Acts.14.25.W2TAB
λαλήσαντες
lalaysantes
“having spoken”
- Transliteration
- la-LAY-san-tes
- Extended
- lah-LAY-sahn-tehs
- IPA
- /laˈlɛː.san.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- having spoken
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| 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 | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
la-LAY-san-tes
- sentence
KAI la-LAY-san-tes en PER-gê ton LO-gon ka-TE-bê-san eis a-TTA-lei-an
Exegesis
The aorist participle lalēsantes {λαλήσαντες | lalḗ-san-tes} “having spoken” functions as a temporal participle, indicating an action completed prior to the main verb, katebēsan {κατέβησαν | ka-té-bē-san} “they went down.”
In context — Acts 14:25
And having spoken the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia .
About this coordinate
Acts 14:25:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Acts 14:25, so the Greek word λαλήσαντες (lalaysantes) 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.14.25.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.14.25.W2.S1) and character.