Acts 20:15:17Acts.20.15.W17TAB
ἤλθομεν
êlthomen
“we came”
- Transliteration
- ÊL-tho-men
- Extended
- êl-THOH-mehn
- IPA
- /ˈɛːl.tʰo.men/
Meaning by language
- English
- we came
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Alphabet Analysis
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ÊL-tho-men
- sentence
ka-KEI-then a-po-PLEU-san-tes tê e-pi-OU-sê ka-tên-TÊ-sa-men AN-ti-krys KHI-ou tê de he-TE-rai pa-re-BA-lo-men eis SA-mon tê de e-kho-ME-nê ÊL-tho-men eis MI-lê-ton
Exegesis
The main narrative movement is carried by three aorist indicatives: katentesamen {κατηντήσαμεν | ka-tēn-TĒ-sa-men} ‘we arrived,’ parebalomen {παρεβάλομεν | pa-re-BA-lo-men} ‘we put in,’ and elthomen {ἤλθομεν | EL-tho-men} ‘we came,’ which move the journey from off Chios to Samos and finally to Miletus.
Root and etymology
erchomaiepsilon–rho–chi–omicron–mu–alpha–iota
“to come, go, arrive”
In context — Acts 20:15
And from there, having set sail, we arrived the next day opposite Chios ; and the following day we put in at Samos; and on the day after that we came to Miletus .
About this coordinate
Acts 20:15:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Acts 20:15, 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.20.15.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.20.15.W17.S1) and character.