Acts 27:28 — compare English translations
Compare translationsActs 27:28 in 3 English versions, beneath the original-language interlinear. Each original word links to its lexicon entry, so you can weigh the renderings against the morphology yourself. Full word study →
καὶ
kaí
G2532
and
βολίσαντες
bolízō
G1001
to sound
εὗρον
heurískō
G2147
to find
ὀργυιὰς
orguiá
G3712
fathom
εἴκοσι
eíkosi
G1501
twenty
βραχὺ
brachýs
G1024
short
δὲ
dé
G1161
but
διαστήσαντες
diḯstēmi
G1339
to stand apart
καὶ
kaí
G2532
and
πάλιν
pálin
G3825
again
βολίσαντες
bolízō
G1001
to sound
εὗρον
heurískō
G2147
to find
ὀργυιὰς
orguiá
G3712
fathom
δεκαπέντε
dekapénte
G1178
fifteen
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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World English Bible Public Domain
They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms..
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King James Version Public Domain
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And taking soundings, they found 20 fathoms, but having gone a little farther and taking soundings again, they found 15 fathoms.
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