Acts 27:34
New International Version
Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.”

New Living Translation
“Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish.”

English Standard Version
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”

Berean Standard Bible
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore I exhort you to take food, for this is for your preservation; for not one hair of your head will perish."

King James Bible
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

New King James Version
Therefore I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you.”

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your survival, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

NASB 1995
“Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

NASB 1977
“Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation; for not a hair from the head of any of you shall perish.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your salvation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

Amplified Bible
So I urge you to eat some food, for this is for your survival; for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

Christian Standard Bible
So I urge you to take some food. For this is for your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

American Standard Version
Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Therefore, I beg you to take food for the sustenance of your lives, for not a hair of any one of your heads will perish.”

Contemporary English Version
I beg you to eat something. Your lives depend on it. Do this and not one of you will be hurt."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat for your health's sake; for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.

English Revised Version
Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So I'm encouraging you to eat something. Eating will help you survive, since not a hair from anyone's head will be lost."

Good News Translation
I beg you, then, eat some food; you need it in order to survive. Not even a hair of your heads will be lost."

International Standard Version
So I urge you to eat something, for it will help you survive, since none of you will lose so much as a hair from his head."

Literal Standard Version
for this reason I call on you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you will a hair fall from the head”;

Majority Standard Bible
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”

New American Bible
I urge you, therefore, to take some food; it will help you survive. Not a hair of the head of anyone of you will be lost.”

NET Bible
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head."

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for it will help you survive; for none of you will lose a hair from your heads.”

New Heart English Bible
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is for your preservation; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads."

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore I pray you to take some food; for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.

Weymouth New Testament
I therefore strongly advise you to take some food. This is essential for your safety. For not a hair will perish from the head of any one of you."

World English Bible
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Shipwreck
33Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food. 34So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.” 35After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 14:45
But the people said to Saul, "Must Jonathan die--he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God's help he has accomplished this today." So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

1 Kings 1:52
And Solomon replied, "If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die."

Matthew 10:30
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Acts 27:33
Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: "Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.


Treasury of Scripture

Why I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

for this.

Matthew 15:32
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Mark 8:2,3
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: …

Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

for there.

1 Kings 1:52
And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.

Matthew 10:30
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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Acts 27
1. Paul shipping toward Rome,
10. foretells of the danger of the voyage,
11. but is not believed.
14. They are tossed to and fro by a storm;
41. and suffer shipwreck;
44. yet all come safe to land.














(34) This is for your health.--Better, safety, or preservation. The Greek word is not that commonly translated "health," and the translators seem to have used it in the wider sense which it had in older English. So, for example, in Wiclif's version, "the knowledge of salvation" in Luke 1:77 appears as "the science of health." Wiclif has "health" here also, and is followed by all the chief English versions, except the Geneva, which has "safe-guard." What St. Paul means is that the preservation of his fellow-passengers depended on their keeping up their strength. The gracious assurance that followed was, as before, not independent of their co-operation.

Verse 34. - Beseech for pray, A.V.; food for meat, A.V.; safety for health, A.V.; a hair for an hair, A.V.; perish for fall, A.V. and T.R. Take; here in the R.T. μεταλαβεῖν instead of προσλαβεῖν of the T.R. Your safety; or, health; i.e. for the preservation of your lives in the impending struggle. Not a hair perish; or, according to the T.R., fall. It is uncertain whether ἀπολεῖται (R.T.) or πεσεῖται (T.R.) is the right reading. The Hebrew proverb, as contained in 1 Samuel 14:45; 2 Samuel 14:11; 1 Kings 1:52, is, "fall to the earth' or "ground:" Αἰ πεσεῖται τριχός (or, ἀπὸ τῆς τριχός or τῶν τριχῶν) τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν (LXX.). In Luke 21:18, it is Θρὶξ ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὑμῶν οὐ μὴ ἀπόληται (comp. Luke 12:7). Absolute and complete safety is meant. He still speaks as a prophet.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
So
διὸ (dio)
Conjunction
Strong's 1352: Wherefore, on which account, therefore. From dia and hos; through which thing, i.e. Consequently.

for
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

your
ὑμετέρας (hymeteras)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Feminine 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5212: Your, yours. From humeis; yours, i.e. Pertaining to you.

[own]
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

preservation,
σωτηρίας (sōtērias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 4991: Feminine of a derivative of soter as noun; rescue or safety.

I urge
παρακαλῶ (parakalō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

you
ὑμᾶς (hymas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

to eat something,
μεταλαβεῖν (metalabein)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 3335: From meta and lambano; to participate; genitive case, to accept.

because
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

not a single
οὐδενὸς (oudenos)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3762: No one, none, nothing.

hair
θρὶξ (thrix)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2359: Hair (of the head or of animals). Genitive case trichos, etc. of uncertain derivation; hair.

of
ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

head
κεφαλῆς (kephalēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2776: From the primary kapto; the head, literally or figuratively.

will be lost.”
ἀπολεῖται (apoleitai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 622: From apo and the base of olethros; to destroy fully, literally or figuratively.


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