Acts 27:34

Tyndale New Testament

Wherfore I praye you to take meate: for this no dout is for youre helth: for ther shall not an heere fall fro the heed of eny of you.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Now I beg you to eat something. You need it to stay alive. None of you will lose even one hair off your heads."

Revised Standard Version
Therefore I urge you to take some food; it will give you strength, since not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for there will not a hair perish from the head of any of you."

International Standard Version
So I urge you to eat something, for it will help you survive, since none of you will lose a hair from his head."1 Kings 1:52; Matthew 10:30; Luke 12:7; 21:18;">[xr]

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."

New Century Version
Now I beg you to eat something. You need it to stay alive. None of you will lose even one hair off your heads."

Update Bible Version
Therefore I urge 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.

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.

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."

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Therefore I exhort you to take food; for this is for your preservation; for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

Weymouth's 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."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wherfor Y preie you to take mete, for youre helthe; for of noon of you the heer of the heed schal perische.

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.

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."

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

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."

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.

Bible in Basic English
So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore I advise you to take some food; you need it for your own survival. For not one of you will lose so much as a hair from his head."

Darby Translation
Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of you shall perish.

Etheridge Translation
Wherefore I beseech you receive meat for the establishment of your lives; for a hair of the head of one of you will not perish.

Murdock Translation
Therefore I entreat you, to take food for the sustenance of your life; for not a hair from the head of any of you, will perish.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat, for this is for your health: for there shall not an haire fall from the head of any of you.

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

New Life Bible
You must eat. It will give you strength. Not one of you will lose a hair from your head."

New Revised Standard
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."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore I exhort you to take meate: for this is for your safegarde: for there shall not an heare fall from the head of any of you.

George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore, I pray you to take some food for the sustenance of your life; for not a hair shall be lost from the head of any of you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you to take some food, - for, this, lays a foundation for your safety; for, of no one of you, shall a hair of the head perish.

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore, I pray you to take meate, for this no doubt is for your health: for there shall not an heere fall from the head of any of you.

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."

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.”

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost."

Literal Translation
Because of this I beg you to take of food, for this is to your deliverance, for not a hair of your head shall perish.

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;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore I praye you to take meate, for youre health: for there shal not one heer fall from the heade of eny of you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
therefore, pray, take something to recruit your strength: and be assur'd every one of you shall be preserv'd."

New English Translation
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 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."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Eat something now. You'll need it to survive the coming days. But remember, no one is going to die."

New American Standard Bible (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."

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."

Contextual Overview

²¹ Then after longe abstinence Paul stode forth in the myddes of them and sayde: Syrs ye shulde have harkened to me and not have lowsed from Candy nether to have brought vnto vs this harme and losse. ²² And nowe I exhorte you to be of good chere. For ther shalbe no losse of eny mas lyfe amonge you save of the ship only. ²³ For ther stode by me this nyght the angell of God whose I am and whom I serve ²⁴ sayinge: feare not Paul for thou must be brought before Cesar. And lo God hath geven vnto the all that sayle with ye. ²⁵ Wherfore Syrs be of good chere: for I beleve God that so it shalbe even as it was tolde me. ²⁶ How be it we must be cast into a certayne ylonde. ²⁷ But when ye fourtethe nyght was come as we were caryed in Adria about mydnyght the shipmen demed that ther appered some countre vnto the: ²⁸ and sounded and founde it .xx. feddoms. And when they had gone a lytell further they sounded agayne and founde .xv. feddoms. ²⁹ Then fearinge lest they shuld have fallen on some Rocke they cast .iiii. ancres out of the sterne and wysshed for ye daye. ³⁰ As the shipmen were about to fle out of the ship and had let doune the bote into the see vnder a coloure as though they wolde have cast ancres out of the forshippe:

Bible Verse Review
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for this: Matthew 15:32, Mark 8:2, Mark 8:3, Philippians 2:5, 1 Timothy 5:23

for there: 1 Kings 1:52, Matthew 10:30, Luke 12:7, Luke 21:18

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:45 - there shall not 2 Samuel 14:11 - not one hair 1 Kings 18:41 - Get Daniel 3:27 - nor was Acts 27:10 - I perceive Acts 27:22 - for

Cross-References

Hebrews 12:17
Ye knowe how that afterwarde when he wolde have inherited the blessinge he was put by and he foude no meanes to come therby agayne: no though he desyred it with teares.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat,.... To sit down composedly, and eat meat cheerfully and freely:

for this is for your health; the Alexandrian copy reads, "for our health"; it was for the health of them all, that they might be better able to bear the shock and fatigue of the shipwreck, and be in better spirits, and in a better capacity to help themselves, and one another:

for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you; a proverbial phrase, expressing the utmost safety of their lives, and therefore might cheerfully eat their food, and rest themselves, and be satisfied. To dream of shaving the hair, portended shipwreck to sailors; nor was it lawful for any to pare his nails, or cut off his hair, but in a storm; to which custom, some think, the apostle here alludes w; see 1 Samuel 14:45.

w Kirchman. de funer. Rom. l. 2. c. 14. p. 212, 213.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not a hair fall from the head ... - A proverbial expression, denoting “that they would be preserved safe; that none of them would be lost, and that “in their persons they should not experience the least damage,” 1 Kings 1:52; 1 Samuel 14:45.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 34. A hair fall from the head — A proverbial expression for, ye shall neither lose your lives nor suffer any hurt in your bodies, if ye follow my advice.