Acts 27:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

There arose against it; Crete or Candia; so that they were in the greater danger, having a sea-shore. Called Euroclydon; this some will have to have been a whirlwind; but the word signifies only, the tempestuous east, or the north-east, which is a contrary wind unto any that would go from Crete to Italy.

Acts 27:14

14 But not long after there arosed against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.