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εὐθυδρομέω

euthydroméō · G2113 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to sail a straight course, to sail straight to

    To follow a straight course to one’s destination or goal

    Examples

    Acts 16:11 So after setting sail from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis;

    Acts 21:1 Now when we had parted from them and had set sail, we ran a straight course to Cos, and on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara;

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
πλέω pléō · G4126 · to sail, sailing, sea traveller
The general Greek verb for sailing; εὐθυδρομέω adds the specific nuance of sailing a straight/direct course, making πλέω a broader near-synonym
διαπλέω diapléō · G1277 · to sail across
Both describe nautical travel between points; διαπλέω focuses on sailing through or across a body of water, while εὐθυδρομέω emphasizes the directness or straightness of the sailing course taken
Semantic domains 1 entry
To sail a straight course, to sail straight to54.3
In Acts 16:11, Paul's party “ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis,” using this verb for sailing directly to a destination.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

εὐθύς euthýs · G2117 · straight, direct, just · 62×εὐθέως euthéōs · G2112 · immediately, right away, then · 33×κατευθύνω kateuthýnō · G2720 · to guide, to direct, to lead · 3×εὐθυδρομέωeuthydroméō · G2113εὐθύνω euthýnō · G2116 · to cause to be straight, to make straight, to straighten · 2×εὐθύτης euthýtēs · G2118 · righteousness, righteous, uprightness · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐυθυδρόμω: 1 aorist ἐυθυδρόμησα (see εὐδοκέω); (ἐυθυδρομος, i. e. εὐθύς and δρόμος); to…
ἐυθυδρόμω: 1 aorist ἐυθυδρόμησα (see εὐδοκέω); (ἐυθυδρομος, i. e. εὐθύς and δρόμος); to make a straight course, run a straight course: followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, Acts 16:11; ἐυθυδρομησας ἦλθον εἰς, Acts 21:1. (Philo, alleg. legg. iii. § 79; de agricult. § 40.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Maritime Activities2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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