UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: δευτεραῖος; -α, -ον

Related lemmas: δύο

Sense 1: on the second day

Semantic entry: 67.180

Semantic domains: Time

Subdomains: Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour

Definition: pertaining to the second of two days

Notes: Some persons have interpreted δευτεραῖος as a period of two days, so that one may translate ‘after two days we came to Puteoli.’ Though general Greek usage does not seem to substantiate this meaning for δευτεραῖος, the context of OET ACT 28:13 may involve a span of two days.

Show passage in OET: ACT 28:13

OET-RV ACT 28:13

13 and then we sailed on to Raigion. The next day a south wind came so we sailed on to Potioloi

OET-LV ACT 28:13

13 whence having _cut _away, we _arrived at Ɽaʸgion.
And after one day, having _come _on a_south _wind, the_second day we _came to Potioloi,

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δευτεραῖος

Form 1

Sense 1: on the second day