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Summary
- Adriana is not in the Bible as a person’s name. It is the feminine of Adrian, from Latin Hadrianus, “from Hadria” — the Etruscan port that gave its name to the Adriatic Sea.
- That sea is named in Scripture: “On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea” (Acts 27:27).
- Earlier in the same storm, “neither sun nor stars appeared for many days” and the crew “gave up all hope of being saved” (Acts 27:20) — the loss of every means of knowing where they were.
- Paul, a prisoner in chains, tells them to keep up their courage and then gets 276 people to eat a meal. Courage in Scripture is often this practical.
- The ship broke up and everyone reached land, some swimming, some on planks. Nobody arrived as planned; they all arrived.
Bibliography (Click to show)
Sources: Behind the Name entries for Adriana and Adrian (feminine of Adrian, from Latin Hadrianus, “from Hadria”); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Acts 27:20, 27:25, 27:27, 27:33-44).
