Acts 20:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀναβὰς δὲ, καὶ κλάσας ἄρτον, καὶ γευσάμενος, ἐφʼ ἱκανόν τε ὁμιλήσας, ἄχρι αὐγῆς, οὕτως ἐξῆλθεν.

Transliteration

Anabas de, and klasas arton, and geusamenos, for hikanon te homilēsas, until augēs, thus exēlthen.

Grammar Details

*Anabas*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having gone up
*de*: postpositive particle - and/but/now
*klasas*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having broken
*arton*: accusative, masculine, singular - bread
*geusamenos*: aorist participle, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - having eaten
*hikanon*: accusative, neuter, singular - considerable time
*te*: connective particle - and/both
*homilēsas*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having conversed
*augēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of daybreak
*exēlthen*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd person singular - went out/departed

Word Meanings

*Anabas*: having gone up/ascended/returned
*klasas*: having broken/broken in pieces
*arton*: bread/loaf
*geusamenos*: having eaten/tasted
*hikanon*: considerable time/long while
*homilēsas*: having conversed/talked/discoursed
*augēs*: daybreak/dawn
*exēlthen*: went out/departed/left

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Acts 20:7 : 7 And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.
Acts 20:9 : 9 And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, borne down with deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet longer, being borne down by his sleep he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

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