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Acts 27:28

NETBible	They took soundings¹ and found the water was twenty fathoms² deep; when they had sailed a little farther³ they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms⁴ deep.
NIV © biblegateway Act 27:28	They took soundings and found that the water was one hundred and twenty feet deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet deep.
NASB © biblegateway Act 27:28	They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
NLT © biblegateway Act 27:28	They took soundings and found the water was only 120 feet deep. A little later they sounded again and found only 90 feet.
MSG © biblegateway Act 27:28	Sounding, they measured a depth of one hundred twenty feet, and shortly after that ninety feet.
BBE © SABDAweb Act 27:28	And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.
NRSV © bibleoremus Act 27:28	So they took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a little farther on they took soundings again and found fifteen fathoms.
NKJV © biblegateway Act 27:28	And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
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KJV	And <2532> sounded <1001> (5660)_, and found <2147> (5627) [it] twenty <1501> fathoms <3712>_: and <1161> when they had gone <1339> (5660) a little further <1024>_, they sounded <1001> (5660) again <3825>_, and <2532> found <2147> (5627) [it] fifteen <1178> fathoms <3712>_.
NASB © biblegateway Act 27:28	They took <1001> soundings <1001> and found <2147> it to be twenty <1501> fathoms <3712> ; and a little <1024> farther <1339> on they took <1001> another <3825> sounding <1001> and found <2147> it to be fifteen <1178> fathoms <3712> .
NET [draft] ITL	They took soundings <1001> and found <2147> the water was twenty <1501> fathoms <3712> deep; when they had sailed <1339> a little <1024> farther <1339> they took soundings <1001> again <3825> and found <2147> it was fifteen <1178> fathoms <3712> deep.
GREEK	kai bolisantev eikosi bracu de diasthsantev palin bolisantev dekapente

NETBible

They took soundings¹ and found the water was twenty fathoms² deep; when they had sailed a little farther³ they took soundings again and found it was fifteen fathoms⁴ deep.

NET Notes

¹tn Grk “Heaving the lead, they found.” The participle βολίσαντες (bolisante") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. See also BDAG 180 s.v. βολίζω. Although the term is used twice in this verse (and thus is technically not a NT hapax legomenon), it occurs nowhere else in the NT.

²sn A fathom is about 6 feet or just under 2 meters (originally the length of a man’s outstretched arms). This was a nautical technical term for measuring the depth of water. Here it was about 120 ft (36 m).

³tn L&N 15.12, “βραχὺ δὲ διαστήσαντες ‘when they had gone a little farther’ Ac 27:28.”

⁴sn Here the depth was about 90 ft (27 m).