Acts 19:16:21Acts.19.16.W21TAB
γυμνοὺς
gymnous
“naked”
- Transliteration
- gym-NOUS
- Extended
- güm-NOOHS
- IPA
- /gymˈnuːs/
Meaning by language
- English
- naked
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Alphabet Analysis
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
gym-NOUS
- sentence
kai e-pha-LO-me-nos ho AN-thrô-pos ep au-TOUS en hôi ÊN to PNEU-ma to po-nê-RON ka-ta-ky-ri-EU-sas am-pho-TE-rôn IS-khy-sen kai kat au-TÔN HÔ-ste gym-NOUS kai te-trau-ma-tis-ME-nous ek-phy-GEIN ek tou OI-kou e-KEI-nou
Exegesis
The accusative participles gymnous and tetravmatismenous {γυμνούς καὶ τετραυματισμένους | gymnoús kaì tetravmatisménous} describe the subjects’ condition as they fled.
In context — Acts 19:16
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaping upon them and mastering all of them, prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.
About this coordinate
Acts 19:16:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of Acts 19:16, so the Greek word γυμνοὺς (gymnous) 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.19.16.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.19.16.W21.S1) and character.