Acts 27:17 meaning and explanation
After hoisting it up, the crew used ropes to undergird the ship. And fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and were driven along.
Acts 27:17, Berean Standard Bible
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Luke, traveling with Paul as a prisoner, describes the crew's frantic measures as a violent storm drives their ship across the sea. Hoisting the lifeboat aboard, the sailors passed ropes under the hull to brace it against the pounding, a practice the Greek text calls hypozōnnymi, meaning to undergird or bind around.
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