Acts 25:15:6Acts.25.15.W6TAB
Ἱεροσόλυμα
hierosolyma
“Jerusalem”
- Transliteration
- hi-e-ro-SO-ly-ma
- Extended
- hee-eh-roh-SOH-lyoo-mah
- IPA
- /hi.e.roˈso.ly.ma/
Meaning by language
- English
- Jerusalem
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father |
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Word in context
- word
hi-e-ro-SO-ly-ma
- sentence
pe-RI hou ge-no-ME-nou mou eis hi-e-ro-SO-ly-ma e-ne-PHA-ni-san hoi ar-khi-e-REIS KAI hoi pres-BY-te-roi tôn i-ou-da-I-ôn ai-TOU-me-noi kat au-TOU ka-ta-DI-kên
Exegesis
The genitive absolute construction genomenou mou eis Hierosolyma {γενομένου μου εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα | genoménou mou eis Hierosólyma} “when I had arrived in Jerusalem” supplies temporal background, indicating that the subsequent events occurred upon the speaker’s arrival.
In context — Acts 25:15
Concerning whom, when I arrived in Jerusalem , the chief priests and the elders of the Jews made a formal charge, requesting a sentence of condemnation against him.
About this coordinate
Acts 25:15:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Acts 25:15, so the Greek word Ἱεροσόλυμα (hierosolyma) 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.25.15.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.25.15.W6.S1) and character.