Acts 20:14:10Acts.20.14.W10TAB

ἤλθομεν

êlthomen

we came

Transliteration
ÊL-tho-men
Extended
AHL-thoh-men
IPA
/ˈɛːl.tʰo.men/

Meaning by language

English
we came

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Result
ἤλ + θο + μεν
êl + tho + men
êlthomen

Alphabet Analysis

Etai — as in machine
Lambdal — as in law
Thetath — as in thin
Omicrono — as in omit (short)
Mum — as in mother
Epsilone — as in met (short)
Nun — as in new

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Word in context

  1. word

    ÊL-tho-men

  2. sentence

    hōs de sy-NE-bal-len hê-MEEN eis tēn AS-son a-na-la-BON-tes au-TON ÊL-tho-men eis mi-ty-LÊ-nēn

Exegesis

The aorist main verb elthomen {ἤλθομεν | ḗlthomen} then carries the narrative forward to its result, with the prepositional phrase eis Mitylenen {εἰς Μιτυλήνην | eis Mitulḗnēn} marking the new destination and outcome of this segment of the journey. In translation, the temporal clause is rendered as “when he met us at Assos,” the participle as a finite verb (“having taken him on board” / “we took him onto the ship”) to maintain natural English flow, and the final aorist as “we came” or “went on” to convey arrival at Mitylene as the completed result of the described actions.

Root and etymology

erchomaiepsilon–rho–chi–omicron–mu–alpha–iota

to come, go, arrive

In contextActs 20:14

But when he met us at Assos , having taken him on board, we came to Mitylene .

About this coordinate

Acts 20:14:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Acts 20:14, so the Greek word ἤλθομεν (êlthomen) 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.20.14.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.20.14.W10.S1) and character.