Acts 28:1:9Acts.28.1.W9TAB
καλεῖται
kaleitai
“is called”
- Transliteration
- ka-LEI-tai
- Extended
- kah-LEI-tai
- IPA
- /kaˈleː.tai/
Meaning by language
- English
- is called
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
ka-LEI-tai
- sentence
KAI di-a-sô-THEN-tes TO-te e-PEG-no-men HO-ti me-LI-tê hê NÊ-sos ka-LEI-tai
Exegesis
The verb kaleitai {καλεῖται | kaleîtai} is a present passive of naming, giving the stable designation of the location. In translation, the participial construction is rendered as a temporal clause to make explicit the time relationship encoded by the aorist participle before the finite verb, while the clause introduced by hoti is kept as an object clause of “recognized/learned” to preserve the cognitive nuance of epegnomen.
In context — Acts 28:1
And when we had been brought safely through , then we recognized that the island was called Melita .
About this coordinate
Acts 28:1:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Acts 28:1, so the Greek word καλεῖται (kaleitai) 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.28.1.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.28.1.W9.S1) and character.