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Acts 27:18

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

KJV

σφοδρῶς δὲ χειμαζομένων ἡμῶν τῇ ἑξῆς ἐκβολὴν ἐποιοῦντο,

Greek NT

Valida autem nobis tempestate jactatis, sequenti die jactum fecerunt :

Vulgate

And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

ASV

And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
σφοδρῶς
sphodros
adverb · 1×
χειμάζω
cheimazo
verb · 1×
ἐκβολή
ekbole
noun · 1×
ἑξῆς
exes
adverb · 5×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 27:19 — And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
  • Acts 27:38 — And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
  • Acts 27:38 — And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
  • Heb 12:1 — 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
  • Isa 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
  • Jonah 1:5 — 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;
  • Jonah 1:5 — 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;
  • Luke 12:23 — The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
  • Matt 16:26 — 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?