Acts 20:15:2Acts.20.15.W2TAB
ἀποπλεύσαντες
apopleusantes
“having sailed away”
- Transliteration
- a-po-PLEU-san-tes
- Extended
- ah-poh-PLEU-sahn-tehs
- IPA
- /a.poˈpleu.san.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- having sailed away
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
a-po-PLEU-san-tes
- 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 aorist participle apopleusantes {ἀποπλεύσαντες | a-po-PLEU-san-tes} ‘having set sail’ is a circumstantial temporal participle, setting the background action for the main verb that follows.
Root and etymology
pleopi–lambda–epsilon–omega
“to sail”
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 20:15:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Acts 20:15, so the Greek word ἀποπλεύσαντες (apopleusantes) 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.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.20.15.W2.S1) and character.