Acts 27:28:11Acts.27.28.W11TAB
βολίσαντες
bolisantes
“having taken soundings”
- Transliteration
- bo-LI-san-tes
- Extended
- boh-LIH-sahn-tehs
- IPA
- /boˈli.san.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- having taken soundings
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Beta | v — as in victory | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Iota | 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
bo-LI-san-tes
- sentence
KAI bo-LI-san-tes HEU-ron or-gy-YAS EI-ko-si bra-KHY de di-a-STÊ-san-tes KAI PA-lin bo-LI-san-tes HEU-ron or-gy-YAS de-ka-PEN-te
Exegesis
The aorist participle bolisantes {βολίσαντες | bo-lí-san-tes} ’having sounded’ precedes the aorist indicative heuron {εὗρον | heû-ron} ’they found’, marking sequence.
In context — Acts 27:28
They took a sounding and found twenty fathoms; then after advancing a little farther , they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms .
About this coordinate
Acts 27:28:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of Acts 27:28, so the Greek word βολίσαντες (bolisantes) 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.27.28.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.27.28.W11.S1) and character.