πηδάλιον
pēdálion · G4079 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
- Steering oar, rudderBoat, ship3 verses
Meanings
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rudder
A large plank at the stern of a ship used to direct its course
ExamplesActs 27:40 And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and they hoisted the foresail to the wind and were heading for the beach.
James 3:4 Look at the ships too: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are nevertheless directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot determines.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐλάχιστοςleast, very small 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπόby, under 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ζευκτηρίαbands 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- מָשׁוֹט mâshôwṭ · H4880 · oar
- Hebrew term for steering implement or oar; used metaphorically in Isa 33:23 and Ezek 27:6,29 for ship navigation, the closest Hebrew equivalent for Greek πηδάλιον
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Rudder6.50
- πηδάλιον names the steering device of a ship. Luke's shipwreck narrative describes the crew's actions as they made for shore: “casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders” (Acts 27:40).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πηδαλίου, τό (from πηδον the blade of an oar, an oar), from Homer down, a ship's rudder:.…
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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