Acts 20:11

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread and ate. After talking with them for a long time, until daybreak, he left.

📖 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

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Now when he had come up, and had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even till daybreak, he departed.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

• 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.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  When he was come vp agayne he brake breed and tasted and comened a longe whyle even tyll the mornynge and so departed.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then wente he vp, and brake the bred, and ate, and talked moch with the, tyll the daye brake, and so departed.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then when Paul was come vp againe, and had broken bread, and eaten, hauing spoken a long while till the dawning of the day, hee so departed.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And so when he was come vp againe, and had broken bread and eaten, & talked a long while, euen tyll the morning, and so he departed.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and having come up, and having broken bread, and having tasted, for a long time also having talked -- till daylight, so he went forth,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

• World English Bible (2000)

  When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:7 : 7 On the first day of the week, we were gathered together to break bread, and Paul began to speak to them. Since he was planning to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight.
• Acts 20:9 : 9 A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, fell into a deep sleep as Paul kept talking on and on. Overcome by sleep, he fell from the third floor and was picked up dead.