ἐπιγίγνομαι G1920
to come upon, spring up (of wind)
A verb meaning to come into being after, arrive subsequently, or spring up. Acts 28:13 uses it of a south wind 'coming up' (ἐπιγενομένου) that enables Paul's ship to continue its journey. Classical usage included the sense of posterity coming after or events following in sequence. Here the nautical context suggests a favorable wind arising after a period of waiting.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Luke records the providential arrival of favorable wind conditions. The multilingual glosses (Spanish 'habiendo soplado,' French 'survenir') capture the sense of the wind arising or coming up. After circling around to Rhegium, the sailors wait for the right conditions. When the south wind springs up, they seize the opportunity to sail to Puteoli. The genitive absolute construction marks this as the enabling circumstance for the next leg of Paul's journey to Rome. 1×
AR["هَبَّت"]·ben["বহিয়া"]·DE["ἐπιγενομένου"]·EN["having-come-up"]·FR["survenir"]·heb["בְּנָשְׁבָה"]·HI["आनेपर"]·ID["datang"]·IT["vento-del-nord"]·jav["dados"]·KO["불니"]·PT["tendo-sobrevindo"]·RU["подувшего"]·ES["habiendo-soplado"]·SW["ulipovuma"]·TR["doğan"]·urd["آنے"]
Related Senses
H1961 1. be, exist, was (Qal copular/existential) (3505×)G1510 1. copulative, linking predication (2095×)G1096 1. become, change state (421×)G1096 2. happen, occur, take place (158×)G1510 2. participial, being (circumstantial/attributive) (157×)H3426 1. there is, there are (existence) (129×)G1510 3. infinitival, to be (128×)H1934 1. to be, exist (65×)H1961 2. become, come to be (Qal inchoative) (55×)G5225 1. to be, to exist (45×)H0194 1. (45×)G1096 3. come, arrive, appear (28×)G1096 4. let it be, may it be done (22×)H0383 1. there is/are, to exist (Aramaic existential particle) (19×)G1096 5. may it never be! (16×)G2673 1. abolish, bring to an end (16×)G1510 5. existential, there is/exists (15×)G5225 2. possessions, property, goods (14×)G1096 6. be, exist, find oneself (13×)H7136a 1. happen, occur, befall (12×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἐπιγίγνομαι, Ionic dialect and later ἐπιγενν-γίνομαι [γῑ], future ἐπιγενήσομαι: aorist 2 ἐπεγενόμην: perfect ἐπιγέγονα: __I. of Time, to be born after, come into being after, ἔαρος δ᾽ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρῃ (i.e. φύλλα, nisi to be read ὥρη) Refs; of persons, Refs 5th c.BC+ posterity, Refs who came after him, Refs the new must prevail over the old, Refs 5th c.BC+ the following, the next.., Refs; χρόνου…