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Acts 27:28The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
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καὶ βολίσαντες εὗρον ὀργυιὰς εἴκοσι, βραχὺ δὲ διαστήσαντες καὶ πάλιν βολίσαντες εὗρον ὀργυιὰς δεκαπέντε·
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Acts 27:28The Bible in Living English
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28 and they heaved the lead and found twenty fathoms. And they waited a bit and heaved the lead again and found fifteen fathoms;
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Acts 27:28American Standard Version
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28 and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.
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Acts 27:28The Emphasized Bible
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28 and sounding they found twenty fathoms,—and going a little further and again sounding they found fifteen fathoms.
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Acts 27:28King James Version
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28 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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Acts Study Notes—Chapter 27New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
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20 fathoms: About 36 m (120 ft). A fathom is a unit for measuring the depth of water. The fathom is commonly viewed as being four cubits (c. 1.8 m; 6 ft) and approximately corresponds to the distance between the fingertips of a man’s two hands when his arms are stretched in opposite directions. Appropriately, the Greek word for “fathom” (or·gui·aʹ) comes from a word meaning “to stretch out; to reach.”—See App. B14.
15 fathoms: About 27 m (90 ft).—See study note on 20 fathoms in this verse and App. B14.
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