Acts 27:20

Neither sun nor stars. Before the invention of the compass, navigators on the high seas were dependent upon observing the sun by day and the stars by night in order to plot their direction and to know their position. It is evident from v. 27 that the officers of the ship did not know their nautical position. They were lost. Many days. Nearly two weeks, as events turned out (v. 27). Then. Gr. loipon, “at last,” “finally.” As the storm continued to make positional observations impossible, and with momentary danger of foundering at sea or being blown upon the Syrtis or upon a rocky shore, the crew at last abandoned hope.