Acts 27:33:17Acts.27.33.W17TAB

προσδοκῶντες

prosdokôntes

expecting

Transliteration
pros-do-KÔN-tes
Extended
prohs-doh-KOHN-tehs
IPA
/pros.doˈkɔːn.tes/

Meaning by language

English
expecting

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Result
προσ + δο + κῶν + τες
pros + do + kôn + tes
prosdokôntes

Alphabet Analysis

Pip — as in pet
Rhor — rolled r
Omicrono — as in omit (short)
Sigmas — as in sit
Deltath — as in this
Omicrono — as in omit (short)
Kappak — as in kite
Omegao — same as omicron
Nun — as in new
Taut — as in top
Epsilone — as in met (short)
Sigma (final)s — used only at end of words

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Word in context

  1. word

    pros-do-KÔN-tes

  2. sentence

    A-khri DE hou hê-ME-ra Ê-me-llen GI-neS-thai pa-re-KA-lei ho PAU-los HA-pan-tas me-ta-la-BEIN tro-PHÊS LE-gōn teS-sa-res-kai-de-KA-tên SÊ-me-ron hê-ME-ran pros-do-KÔN-tes A-si-toi di-a-te-LEI-te mê-THEN pros-la-BO-me-noi

Exegesis

The participial cluster prosdokôntes ásitoi {προσδοκῶντες ἄσιτοι | prosdokôntes ásitoi} qualifies diateleîte {διατελεῖτε | diateleîte}, presenting a state of continued expectation and fasting.

In contextActs 27:33

As the new day was on the verge of dawning, Paul urged them all to eat , saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have endured suspense and gone without food, taking nothing.”

About this coordinate

Acts 27:33:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Acts 27:33, so the Greek word προσδοκῶντες (prosdokôntes) 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.27.33.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.27.33.W17.S1) and character.