Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #103605

SR GNT Acts 27:1 Σεβαστῆς (Sebastaʸs) ‘by the name Youlios of the cohort of Augustus/(Sebastos)’ Strongs=45750 Lemma=sebastos
Word role=adjective case=genitive gender=feminine number=singular
Year=62 AD Event=Journey_to_Rome_begins TimeSeries=Journey_to_Rome_begins,Paul's_Journey_to_Rome

Note: With the help of a companion website, these word pages enable you to click through all the way back to photographs of the original manuscripts that the Open English Translation New Testament is translated from. If you go to the Statistical Restoration Greek page (by clicking on the SR Bible reference above), from there you can click on the original manuscript numbers (e.g., 𝔓1, 01, 02, etc.) in the Witness column there, to see their transcription of the original Greek page. From there, you can click on the 🔍 magnifying glass icon to view a photograph of the actual leaf of the codex. This is all part of the commitment of the Open English Translation team to be transparent about all levels of the Bible translation process right back to the original manuscripts.

Only use of identical word form Σεβαστῆς (A-GFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Σεβαστῆς’ (A-GFS) is always and only glossed as ‘of Augustus/(Sebastos)’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Σεβαστῆς’ (A-GFS) was always and only glossed as ‘of Augustus’).

Acts 27:1 ‘by the name Youlios of the cohort of Augustus/(Sebastos)’ SR GNT Acts 27:1 word 24

OET-LV: 27 And when it _was _judged which us to _be _sailing _away to the Italia, they _were _giving _over the both Paulos and some other prisoners, to_a_centurion by_the_name Youlios, of_the_cohort of _Augustus/(Sebastos). (ACT_27:1)

OET-RV: 27 So when it was considered the right season to sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were put under the guard of a centurion named Julius (from the Augustan Regiment). (ACT 27:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘sebastos’ have 2 different glosses: ‘of Augustus/(Sebastos)’, ‘Emperor’.

Key: A=adjective GFS=genitive,feminine,singular