Acts 27:12
Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.
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ASV
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to put to sea from thence, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there; which is a haven of Crete, looking north-east and south-east.
KJV
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
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Commentary
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“The Fast” on a sailor's calendar
“The Fast” here is the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), the great autumn fast of Leviticus 16, used by Luke exactly as a modern writer might say “after Thanksgiving”: as a date. Yom Kippur falls in late September or October, and in the ancient Mediterranean, open-sea sailing was reckoned dangerous from about that point until spring. Luke's note is a Jewish calendar doing secular work: the fast is past, therefore the sailing season is closing, therefore Paul's warning.
Sources: Leviticus 16:29 (the fast's date, the seventh month's tenth day) · The Day of Atonement (this site's study)
Original language & word study
29 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἀνευθέτου | Aneuthetou | Unsuitable | G428 → |
| δὲ | de | now | G1161 → |
| τοῦ | tou | the | G3588 → |
| λιμένος | limenos | harbor | G3040 → |
| ὑπάρχοντος | huparchontos | being | G5225 → |
| πρὸς | pros | to | G4314 → |
| παραχειμασίαν | paracheimasian | winter in | G3915 → |
| οἱ | hoi | the | G3588 → |
| πλείονες | pleiones | majority | G4119 → |
| ἔθεντο | ethento | reached | G5087 → |
| βουλὴν | boulēn | a decision | G1012 → |
| ἀναχθῆναι | anachthēnai | to set sail | G321 → |
| ἐκεῖθεν, | ekeithen | from there, | G1564 → |
| εἴ | ei | if | G1487 → |
| πως | pōs | somehow | G4458 → |
| δύναιντο | dunainto | they would be able | G1410 → |
| καταντήσαντες | katantēsantes | having arrived | G2658 → |
| εἰς | eis | at | G1519 → |
| Φοίνικα | Phoinika | Phoenix | G5405 → |
| παραχειμάσαι | paracheimasai | to winter [there] — | G3914 → |
| λιμένα | limena | a harbor | G3040 → |
| τῆς | tēs | <the> | G3588 → |
| Κρήτης | Krētēs | of Crete | G2914 → |
| βλέποντα | bleponta | looking | G991 → |
| κατὰ | kata | toward | G2596 → |
| λίβα | liba | [the] southwest | G3047 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| κατὰ | kata | toward | G2596 → |
| χῶρον.¶ | chōron | [the] northwest. | G5566 → |
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