Word

πλοῖον

ploîon · G4143 · Greek · 67 occurrences

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Boat, shipTransportation128 verses

Meanings

boat, ship

Any kind of boat, from small fishing boats as on Lake Galilee to large seagoing vessels

Examples
Matthew 4:21 Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets; and He called them.
Matthew 4:22 Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.
Matthew 8:23 When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.

How it’s used In 7 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

8 occurrences in 11 groups

Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἰμίto be 1

What it doesIt is the subject

8 occurrences in 8 groups

γεμίζωto fill 1
εἰμίto be 1
ἵστημιto stand, to set 1
καλύπτωto cover 1
μετάγωto direct 1
προσκυνέωto worship, to bow down 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 8 groups

εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 2
ἐξωθέωto expel 1
ἔχωto have 1
κατάγωto bring down 1
κουφίζωto lighten 1
πλήθωto fill, to be filled 1

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

γῆearth 1
μέσοςin the midst, among 1
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

43 occurrences in 7 groups

εἰςto 42
ἐνin 23
ἐκfrom 9
ἐπίon 3
ἀπόfrom 3
ἐγγύςnear 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

μέροςpart 1
σκευήthings 1
τρίτοςthird 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

אֳנִיָּה ʼŏnîyâh · H591 · ship, boats of reeds: אֳנִיָּה (ʼŏnîyâh, H591) אֳנִיָּה is the standard Hebrew lexical equivalent for πλοῖον (ploîon, G4143) πλοῖον, both denoting a ship or sailing vessel as the primary watercraft term in their respective languages.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Boat, ship6.41: πλοῖον names a boat or ship generally, the ordinary vessel of the Gospels' lake scenes. Matthew's account of the calling of James and John describes their circumstance: “Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets; and He called them” (Matthew 4:21).

Word family 10 words

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

πλέω pléō · G4126 · to sail, sailing, sea traveller · 6×πλοῖονploîon · G4143πλοιάριον ploiárion · G4142 · small boat · 5×ἀποπλέω apopléō · G636 · to sail away, to sail from · 4×ἐκπλέω ekpléō · G1602 · to sail out of port, to sail away from · 3×πλόος plóos · G4144 · to sail, sailing · 3×ὑποπλέω hypopléō · G5284 · to sail under the shelter of, to sail on, protected by · 2×διαπλέω diapléō · G1277 · to sail across · 1×καταπλέω katapléō · G2668 · to sail toward shore, to approach a shore · 1×παραπλέω parapléō · G3896 · to sail past, to sail by · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πλοίου, τό (πλέω), from Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for אנִיָּה, a ship: Mt 4:21,…

πλοίου, τό (πλέω), from Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for אנִיָּה, a ship: Mt 4:21, Mt 4:22; Mk 1:19; Lk 5:2 (R G L text Tr text WH text); Jn 6:17; Acts 20:13, and often in the historical books of the N. T.; Jas 3:4; Rev 8:9; Rev 18:19. (BB. DD., under the word Ship.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Boats and Parts of Boats67 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