Acts 27:17 - William Tyndale New Testament

¹⁷ which they took up, and used help undergirding the ship, fearing lest we should have fallen into Syrtes, and we let down a vessel and so were carried.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ After hoisting it on board, they used supports with ropes to undergird and brace the ship; then afraid that they would be driven into the Syrtis [quicksands off the north coast of Africa], they lowered the gear (sails and ropes) and so were driven along.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ They brought the lifeboat aboard, then began to wrap the ship with cables to hold it together. Fearing they might run aground on the sandbars of the Gulf of Syrtis, they lowered the anchor and let the ship be carried along.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ When this was taken up, they used it to assist in securing the ship. For they were afraid that they might run aground. And having lowered the sails, they were being driven along in this way.

Acts 27:17 Tagairtí Cros

Acts 27:16

We came unto an isle named Clauda, And had much work to come by a boat,

Acts 27:26

and we must be cast into a certain island.

Acts 27:29

Then fearing lest they should have fallen on some Rocke, they cast iiij. anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

Acts 27:40

And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and lowsed the rudder bonds and hoised up the main sail to the wind and drew to land,

Acts 27:41

but they fell into a place, which had the sea on both the sides, and thrust in the ship. And the fore part stuck fast, and moved not, but the hinderpart brake with the violence of the waves.