Acts 27:15
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
Acts 27:15 in other translations
| BSB | Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along. |
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| WEB | When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. |
| ASV | and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven. |
| YLT | and the ship being caught, and not being able to bear up against the wind, having given her up, we were borne on, |
| DARBY | And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven before it. |
| BBE | And when the ship got into the grip of it, and was not able to make headway into the wind, we gave way, and went before it. |
| Webster | And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. |
What does Acts 27:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 27:14-15
14-15. a tempestuous--"typhonic" wind--that is, like a typhon or tornado, causing a whirling of the clouds, owing to the meeting of opposite currents of air. called Euroclydon--The true reading appears to be Euro-aquilo, or east-northeast, which answers all the effects here ascribed to it.
Barnes' Notes
Could not bear up, etc. Could not resist its violence, or could not direct the ship. It was seized by the wind, and driven with such violence that it became unmanageable.
We let her drive. We suffered the ship to be borne along by the wind, without attempting to control it.
(+) "caught" "Borne away"
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 27:12-20
Those who launch forth on the ocean of this world, with a fair gale, know not what storms they may meet with; and therefore must not easily take it for granted that they have obtained their purpose. Let us never expect to be quite safe till we enter heaven. They saw neither sun nor stars for many days. Thus melancholy sometimes is the condition of the people of God as to their spiritual matters; they walk in…
Acts 27:15 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 27:15
- Acts 27:27
But 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;
- James 3:4
Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
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Context
- Acts 27:14
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
- Acts 27:15
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
- Acts 27:16
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
Acts 27:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y siendo arrebatada la nave, y no pudiendo resistir contra el viento, la dejamos, y éramos llevados. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le navire étant emporté et ne pouvant tenir contre le vent, nous l’avons laissé aller à la dérive et avons été emportés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Als aber das Schiff mit fortgerissen wurde und dem Winde nicht zu widerstehen vermochte, gaben wir uns preis und trieben dahin. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cumque arrepta esset navis, et non posset conari in ventum, data nave flatibus, ferebamur. |