Acts 27:38
New Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
דַּי
day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
אוֹר
ʼôwr
to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
חִטָּה
chiṭṭâh
wheat, whether the grain or the plant
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
Key Terms in This Verse
אוֹר ʼôwr
to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)
Study H215 →דַּי day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
Study H1767 →יָם yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the sou...
Study H3220 →Cross References
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship;...
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raime...
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is...
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
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