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Εὐροκλύδων

Euroklýdōn · G2148 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. a Northeaster

    A hybrid formation from Greek and Latin, meaning literally either ‘east wind’ or ‘broad wind’: a strong storm wind blowing from the northeast

    Examples

    Acts 27:14 But before very long a violent wind, called Euraquilo, rushed down from the land;

How it’s used

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

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 1 word
λαῖλαψ laîlaps · G2978 · windstorm, whirlwind, squall
λαῖλαψ is a general term for a violent storm or squall (Mark 4:37, Luke 8:23, 2 Pet 2:17), whereas Εὐροκλύδων is the specific technical term for a northeaster wind. Both refer to dangerous maritime storms, and λαῖλαψ could substitute in context for the type of storm Εὐροκλύδων describes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
A Northeaster14.9
In Acts 27:14, during Paul's voyage, “a violent wind, called Euraquilo, rushed down from the land,” naming this particular violent northeasterly windstorm.
Word family 5 words

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

κλύδων klýdōn · G2830 · wave, billow, surge · 2×κατακλυσμός kataklysmós · G2627 · flood, deluge · 4×ΕὐροκλύδωνEuroklýdōn · G2148κατακλύζω kataklýzō · G2626 · flood, deluge · 1×κλυδωνίζομαι klydōnízomai · G2831 · to be tossed about by waves · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐυρακυλωνος, ὁ (from εὖρος and Latinaquilo, like ἐυρονοτος, and euroauster (Buttmann, 16…
ἐυρακυλωνος, ὁ (from εὖρος and Latinaquilo, like ἐυρονοτος, and euroauster (Buttmann, 16 (15))), Vulg.euroaquilo; the Euraquilo, a N. E. wind: Acts 27:14 L T Tr WH, for Rec. εὐροκλύδων (Griesbach, ἐυρυκλων) which see. (Not found elsewhere.) (B. D., see under the word, Euroclydon.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Wind1 occurrence

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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