Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
After no long time (met ou polu). Litotes again.
Beat down from it (ebalen kat authv). Second aorist active indicative of ballw, to throw. Here "dashed" (intransitive). Authv is in the ablative, not genitive case, beat "down from it" (Crete), not "against it or on it." (Robertson, Grammar, p. 606). Authv cannot refer to ploion (boat) which is neuter. So the ablative case with kata as in Mark 5:13, Homer also. The Cretan mountains are over 7,000 feet high.
A tempestuous wind which is called Euraquilo (anemov tufwnikov o kaloumenov Eurakulwn). Tufwn=Tufwv was used for the typhoon, a violent whirlwind (turbo) or squall. This word gives the character of the wind. The Eurakulwn (reading of Aleph A B against the Textus Receptus Eurokludwn) has not been found elsewhere. Blass calls it a hybrid word compounded of the Greek eurov (east wind) and the Latin aquilo (northeast). It is made like euronotov (southeast). The Vulgate has euroaquilo. It is thus the east north east wind. Page considers Euroclydon to be a corruption of Euraquilo. Here the name gives the direction of the wind.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 27:14:
1 Corinthians 11:4
Revelation 7:1
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