KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 27:43–44
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Acts 27:43
43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
43But the Centurion, willing to saue Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swimme, should cast themselues first into the sea, and get to land:
Acts 27:44
44And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
44And the rest, some on boords, and some on broken pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they escaped all safe to land.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 27:43
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A Roman officer commanding about one hundred soldiers.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
Disposing of by will; Determining; resolving; desiring.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
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Retained, guarded, observed, or preserved.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To move progressively in water by means of the motion of the hands and feet, or of fins.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
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Before all others in time, place, order, rank, or importance; the beginning or earliest.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Acts 27:44
Repose, relief, or cessation from labour; also what remains.
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A vessel for travel or transport on water.
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To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.
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Got free, fled, avoided danger, or passed without harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Free from danger, harm, loss, or capture; brought or kept securely.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
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Open the full verse study7When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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Open the full verse study25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
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Open the full verse study10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
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Open the full verse study24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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Open the full verse study11Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
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Open the full verse study31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
From verse 44
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Open the full verse study22And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.
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Open the full verse study28Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
30Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
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Open the full verse study24Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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Open the full verse study39And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Open the full verse study18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
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Open the full verse study8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
9But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
10Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
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Open the full verse study31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
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Open the full verse study9For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
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