Acts 28:14:13Acts.28.14.W13TAB
τὴν
tên
“the”
- Transliteration
- tên
- Extended
- tayn
- IPA
- /tɛːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- the
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
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tên
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hou heu-RON-tes a-del-PHOUS pa-re-KLÊ-thê-men par au-TOIS e-pi-MEI-nai hê-ME-ras hep-TA kai HOU-tôs eis tên RHÔ-mên ÊL-tha-men
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase eis tēn Rhōmēn {εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην | eis tēn Rhṓ-mēn} “into Rome” marks movement toward the goal city, and the aorist ēlthamen {ἤλθαμεν | ḗl-tha-men} completes the narrative with a simple past arrival. In translation, the participial construction is retained more literally in the formal rendering (“having found”) to preserve the temporal nuance, while the dynamic version reshapes it as a temporal clause (“when we found”) for natural contemporary English. The passive plus infinitive construction (pareklēthēmen … epimeinai) is rendered with “were invited to remain / invited to stay” to maintain both the sense of hospitality and the dependence of the infinitive on the passive verb. Houtōs is expressed as “thus” or “in this way” to preserve its inferential force connecting the hospitality at that location with the eventual arrival in Rome.
Root and etymology
katantaōkappa–alpha–tau–alpha–nu–tau–alpha–omega
“to come down to, arrive at a place or goal”
In context — Acts 28:14
Where, having found brothers , we were invited to remain with them for seven days, and thus we came into Rome .
About this coordinate
Acts 28:14:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Acts 28:14, so the Greek word τὴν (tên) 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.28.14.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.28.14.W13.S1) and character.