Acts 20:19:18Acts.20.19.W18TAB
Ἰουδαίων
ioudaiōn
“Jews”
- Transliteration
- i-ou-dai-ŌN
- Extended
- ih-oo-dai-ÔHN
- IPA
- /i.ou.daiˈɔːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- Jews
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Alphabet Analysis
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
i-ou-dai-ŌN
- sentence
dou-LEU-ōn tō ky-REE-ō me-TA PA-sēs ta-pei-no-phro-SY-nēs KAI da-KRY-ōn KAI pei-ras-MŌN tōn sym-BAN-tōn MOI en TAIS e-pi-bou-LAIS tōn i-ou-dai-ŌN
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase en tais epiboulais tōn Ioudaiōn {ἐν ταῖς ἐπιβουλαῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων | en taîs epiboulaîs tōn Ioudaíōn} is locative, situating those events within the context of “the plots of the Jews,” and implicitly indicating the source of danger. In translation, the participial structure is rendered either as a finite verb (“I served”) or as an adverbial participle (“Serving”), while preserving the sequential flow: service directed to the Lord, characterized by humility and tears, and taking place amid hostile schemes. The English phrasing maintains the piling effect of the coordinated genitives and makes explicit the connection between the trials and the hostile plots without over-specifying causal relations beyond the Greek locative expression.
In context — Acts 20:19
Serving the Lord with all humility and tears, and with the trials that happened to me in the plots of the Jews.
About this coordinate
Acts 20:19:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Acts 20:19, so the Greek word Ἰουδαίων (ioudaiōn) 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.20.19.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.20.19.W18.S1) and character.