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Acts 27:28 KJV
Acts · chapter 27 · verse 28 · King James Version
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.Acts 27:28 · King James Version
Acts 27:28 in context
26Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
27But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
28And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
29Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Key words (Strong's)
- soundedbolizōto heave the lead, take a sounding, a line and plummet with which mariners sound the…G1001 →
- fathomsorguiafathom, the distance across the breast from the tip of one middle finger to the tip of…G3712 →
- furtherbrachysshort, small, little, of place, a short distance, a little, of time, a short time, for a…G1024 →
- fifteendekapentefifteenG1178 →
- twentyeikositwentyG1501 →
- foundheyriskōto come upon, hit upon, to meet with, after searching, to find a thing sought, without…G2147 →
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