King James Version
Acts 28:14 in the King James Version says “Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.” — study this verse from Acts chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.”
Acts 28:14 · KJV
And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and were desired”
G3870to call near, i.e., invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
“with”
G1909properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e., over, upon, etc.; of re
“them”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“days”
G2250day, i.e., (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the jews as inclusive of
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“toward”
G1519to or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or (figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial phrases
“we went”
G2064to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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