Acts 27:43 - Exposition

Desiring for willing, A.V.; stayed for kept, A.V.; overboard, and get first to the land for first into the sea, and get to land, A.V. To save Paul ; διασῶσαι , and Acts 27:44 and Acts 28:1 , Acts 28:4 ; a word of very frequent medical use, employed six times by St. Luke, but only twice elsewhere in the New Testament ( Matthew 14:26 ; i Peter 3:20). Swim ; κοολυμβάω , here only in the Bible; though κολυμβήθρα , properly a swim-ruing-bath, rendered "pool" in the A.V., occurs five times in St. John's Gospel. The verb means "to dive" rather than "to swim." Both the verb and the noun are used frequently in medical language for "swimming in a bath," and ῥίπτειν σεαυτὸν (like ἀπορρίπτειν here) is the phrase for jumping into the bath.