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Acts 27

Acts 27:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
running under
hupotrecho (Greek #5295)
to run under, i.e. (specially), to sail past
KJV usage: run under.
Pronounce: hoop-ot-rekh'-o
Origin: from 5259 and 5143 (including its alternate)
a certain
tis (Greek #5100)
some or any person or object
KJV usage: a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).
Pronounce: tis
Origin: an enclitic indefinite pronoun
island
nesion (Greek #3519)
an islet
KJV usage: island.
Pronounce: nay-see'-on
Origin: diminutive of 3520
which is called
kaleo (Greek #2564)
to "call" (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise)
KJV usage: bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-)name (was (called)).
Pronounce: kal-eh'-o
Origin: akin to the base of 2753
Clauda
Klaude (Greek #2802)
Claude, an island near Crete
KJV usage: Clauda.
Pronounce: klow'-day
Origin: of uncertain derivation
, we had much
ischuo (Greek #2480)
to have (or exercise) force (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: be able, avail, can do(-not), could, be good, might, prevail, be of strength, be whole, + much work.
Pronounce: is-khoo'-o
Origin: from 2479
work
molis (Greek #3433)
with difficulty
KJV usage: hardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work.
Pronounce: mol'-is
Origin: probably by variation for 3425
to come
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
by
perikrates (Greek #4031)
strong all around, i.e. a master (manager)
KJV usage: + come by.
Pronounce: per-ee-krat-ace'
Origin: from 4012 and 2904
the boat
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
skaphe (Greek #4627)
a "skiff" (as if dug out), or yawl (carried aboard a large vessel for landing)
KJV usage: boat.
Pronounce: skaf'-ay
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Boat,
Clauda; Cauda

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Clauda.Clauda, called Cauda and Gaudos by Mela and Pliny, and Claudos by Ptolemy, and now Gozo, according to Dr. Shaw, is a small island, situated at the south-western extremity of the island of Crete.
Acts 27:16• 16And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: (Acts 27:16)
• The small island to the leeward of which they drove before the wind is now called Gozzo. (“Acts 27:14-26” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat;

W. Kelly Translation

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And running under the lee of a certain small island called Claudaa, we were able with difficulty to secure the boat;

WK Translation Notes

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In some MSS. it is "Cauda."