Acts 16:13:10Acts.16.13.W10TAB

παρὰ

para

beside

Transliteration
pa-RA
Extended
pah-RAH
IPA
/paˈra/

Meaning by language

English
beside

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Result
πα + ρὰ
pa + ra
para

Alphabet Analysis

Pip — as in pet
Alphaah — as in father
Rhor — rolled r
Alphaah — as in father

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Word in context

  1. word

    pa-RA

  2. sentence

    tê te hê-ME-rai tôn sab-BA-tōn ek-SÊL-tho-men EK-sō tês PY-lēs pa-RA po-ta-MON hou e-no-MI-zo-men pro-seu-KHÊN EI-nai kai ka-THI-san-tes e-la-LOU-men tais sy-nel-THOU-sais gy-nai-KSIN

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase para potamon {παρὰ ποταμὸν | pa-rá po-ta-món} specifies location “by a river.”

Root and etymology

kaleōkappa–alpha–lambda–epsilon–omega

to call, summon

In contextActs 16:13

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we assumed there was a place of prayer ; we sat down and spoke with the women who had gathered there.

About this coordinate

Acts 16:13:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Acts 16:13, so the Greek word παρὰ (para) 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.16.13.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.16.13.W10.S1) and character.