Acts 14:12

14:12 They began to call ¹  Barnabas Zeus ²  and Paul Hermes, ³  because he was the chief speaker.

Acts 27:14

27:14 Not long after this, a hurricane-force ⁴  wind called the northeaster ⁵  blew down from the island. ⁶ 

¹ tn The imperfect verb ἐκάλουν (ekaloun) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

² sn Zeus was the chief Greek deity, worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world (known to the Romans as Jupiter).

³ sn Hermes was a Greek god who (according to Greek mythology) was the messenger of the gods and the god of oratory (equivalent to the Roman god Mercury).

⁴ tn Grk “a wind like a typhoon.” That is, a very violent wind like a typhoon or hurricane (BDAG 1021 s.v. τυφωνικός).

⁵ sn Or called Euraquilo (the actual name of the wind, a sailor’s term which was a combination of Greek and Latin). According to Strabo (Geography 1.2.21), this was a violent northern wind.

⁶ tn Grk “from it”; the referent (the island) has been specified in the translation for clarity.