Acts 16:19:1Acts.16.19.W1TAB
Ἰδόντες
idontes
“having seen”
- Transliteration
- i-DON-tes
- Extended
- ih-DON-tehs
- IPA
- /iˈdon.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- having seen
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Alphabet Analysis
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| 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
i-DON-tes
- sentence
i-DON-tes de hoi KY-ree-oi au-TÊS HO-ti ek-EX-êl-then hê el-PIS tês er-ga-SI-as au-TÔN e-pi-la-BO-me-noi ton PAU-lon kai ton si-LÂN HEIL-ky-san eis tên a-go-RAN e-PI tous AR-khon-tas
Exegesis
The verse begins with the aorist circumstantial participle idontes {Ἰδόντες | Idón-tes} ‘having seen’, which forms a temporal-causal clause best rendered “when they saw.”
In context — Acts 16:19
When her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers .
About this coordinate
Acts 16:19:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Acts 16:19, so the Greek word Ἰδόντες (idontes) 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.16.19.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.16.19.W1.S1) and character.