Text -- Acts 27:19 (NET)

27:19 and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 27:19

¹ tn Or “rigging,” “tackle”; Grk “the ship’s things.” Here the more abstract “gear” is preferred to “rigging” or “tackle” as a translation for σκεῦος (skeuos) because in v. 40 the sailors are still able to raise the (fore)sail, which they could not have done if the ship’s rigging or tackle had been jettisoned here.