Acts 18:17:10Acts.18.17.W10TAB
βήματος
bêmatos
“tribunal”
- Transliteration
- BÊ-ma-tos
- Extended
- BAYH-mah-tohs
- IPA
- /ˈbɛː.ma.tos/
Meaning by language
- English
- tribunal
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Beta | v — as in victory | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
BÊ-ma-tos
- sentence
e-pi-la-BO-me-noi de PAN-tes sōs-THE-nen ton ar-khi-sy-NA-gō-gon E-ty-pton EM-pros-then tou BÊ-ma-tos KAI ou-DEN TOU-tōn tō gal-LI-ō-ni E-me-len
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase emprosthen tou bematos {ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ βήματος | émprosthen toû bḗmatos} ‘before the tribunal’ situates the violence in a public judicial setting.
Root and etymology
bainobeta–alpha–iota–nu–omega
“to step, go”
In context — Acts 18:17
Then all of them seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue , and they were beating him in front of the judgment seat . Yet none of these things was a concern to Gallio.
About this coordinate
Acts 18:17:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Acts 18:17, so the Greek word βήματος (bêmatos) 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.18.17.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.18.17.W10.S1) and character.