Acts 22:17:4Acts.22.17.W4TAB
ὑποστρέψαντι
hypostrepsanti
“having returned”
- Transliteration
- hy-po-STRE-psan-ti
- Extended
- hyoo-poh-STREH-psahn-tih
- IPA
- /hy.poˈstrep.san.ti/
Meaning by language
- English
- having returned
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Alphabet Analysis
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Psi | ps — as in lips | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
hy-po-STRE-psan-ti
- sentence
e-GHE-ne-to DE moi hy-po-STRE-psan-ti eis i-e-rou-sa-LÊM KAI pro-seu-kho-ME-nou mou en tôi hi-e-RÔI ge-NES-thai me en ek-STA-sei
Exegesis
The dative aorist participle hypostrepsanti {ὑποστρέψαντι | hu-po-strép-san-ti} “having returned” functions temporally, indicating a circumstance prior to the main experience and syntactically dependent on moi, so that the sense is “for me, after I had returned.”
Root and etymology
hypostrephōupsilon–pi–omicron–sigma–tau–rho–epsilon–phi–omega
“to return, to turn back”
In context — Acts 22:17
Now it happened to me, after I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance .
About this coordinate
Acts 22:17:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Acts 22:17, so the Greek word ὑποστρέψαντι (hypostrepsanti) 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.22.17.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.22.17.W4.S1) and character.