Acts 20:14:5Acts.20.14.W5TAB
εἰς
eis
“to”
- Transliteration
- eis
- Extended
- eis
- IPA
- /eis/
Meaning by language
- English
- to
Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
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eis
- 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 prepositional phrase eis ten Asson {εἰς τὴν Ἆσσον | eis tḕn Ásson} locates this meeting spatially by marking the destination or locale of the encounter.
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
tithemitau–iota–theta–eta–mu–iota
“to place, to put, to appoint”
In context — Acts 20:14
But when he met us at Assos , having taken him on board, we came to Mitylene .
About this coordinate
Acts 20:14:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Acts 20:14, so the Greek word εἰς (eis) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.20.14.W5.S1) and character.