Acts 27:34
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
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.
American King James Version (AKJV)
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
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.
Webster's Revision
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.
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."
English Revised Version (ERV)
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.
Definitions for Acts 27:34
Clarke's Acts 27:34 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Acts 27:34 Bible Commentary
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.
Wesley's Acts 27:34 Bible Commentary
27:34 This is for your preservation - That ye may be the better able to swim to shore.
