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Andδὲin allαἱ πᾶσαιwe wereἤμεθαtwo hundredδιακόσιαιseventy-sixἑβδομήκοντα ἕξpersonsψυχαὶinἐνthe ship.τῷ πλοίῳ
Acts 27:37
Study it in the app“And in all we were two hundred seventy-six persons in the ship.”
With the Greek beneath
Acts 27:37, word by word
- we wereἤμεθαēmetha
be
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “ēmetha” appears- two hundredδιακόσιαιdiakosiai
two hundred
Two hundred.
Where else “diakosiai” appears- seventy-sixἑβδομήκονταhebdomēkonta
seventy
Seventy.
Where else “hebdomēkonta” appears- seventy-sixἕξhex
six
Six.
Where else “hex” appears- personsψυχαὶpsychai
person
A human being counted one by one, as when saying how many there were.
Where else “psychai” appears- the shipπλοίῳploiōi
boat
Boat.
Where else “ploiōi” appears
Translation note· on the manuscripts
Some manuscripts read “about seventy-six.”
The context
36And all, becoming encouraged, also took food themselves.
37 · This verse (above)
38And when they had eaten their fill of food, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
To study Acts 27 in a group
1. What it says
What does Paul tell the men on the ship as the storm drags on, and why? (vv. 21-26)
2. What it means
When the sailors want to escape in the boat, why does Paul say they must stay on the ship? (vv. 30-32)
3. How I live it
In the storm, Paul urged everyone to eat and not lose hope (vv. 33-36). How do you stay calm and look after others in a crisis?