κουφίζω
kouphízō · G2893 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to lighten, to make less heavy
To cause something to weigh less
ExamplesActs 27:38 When they had eaten enough, they began lightening the ship by throwing the wheat out into the sea.
How it’s used In 2 roles
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πλοῖονboat 1
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Contrasting words 2 words
- βαρέω baréō · G916 · to be burdened, to be troubled, to be sound asleep
- Greek verb meaning 'to weigh down, make heavy, burden'; the direct lexical opposite of κουφίζω (to lighten, make less heavy), representing the contrasting action of adding weight rather than reducing it. Note that βαρέω is used figuratively in the New Testament corpus.
- φορτίζω phortízō · G5412 · to cause to carry, to cause to bear a load
- Greek verb meaning 'to load, to burden with cargo'; the functional opposite of κουφίζω (to unload, lighten), representing the action of loading rather than unloading.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To lighten, to make less heavy86.3
- κουφίζω describes reducing a load's weight. Acts 27:38 recounts that during the shipwreck voyage, “when they had eaten enough, they began lightening the ship by throwing the wheat out into the sea,” the ἐκούφιζον naming this act of lightening the vessel.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : imperfect 3 person plural ἐκούφιζον; (κοῦφος light); 1. intransitive, to be light…
1. intransitive, to be light (Hesiod, Euripides, Dio C.).
2. from Hippocrates down, generally translated, to lighten: a ship, by throwing the cargo overboard, Acts 27:38. (the Sept. Jon 1:5, and often in Polybius)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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