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πλόος

plóos · G4144 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to sail, sailing

    The movement of a boat or ship through the water, either rowed or blown by the wind

    Examples

    Acts 21:7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and after greeting the brothers and sisters, we stayed with them for a day.

    Acts 27:9 When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul started admonishing them,

    Acts 27:10 saying to them, “Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

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

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To sail, sailing54.1
πλόος names a voyage or the act of sailing. Luke's account of Paul's journey toward Jerusalem records its completion: “When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and after greeting the brothers and sisters, we stayed with them for a day” (Acts 21:7).
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×πλοῖον ploîon · G4143 · boat, ship · 67×πλοιάριον 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×πλόοςplóos · G4144ὑποπλέω 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 πλοῦς, genitive πλόου πλοῦ, and in later writings πλοός (Acts 27:9; Arrian peripl.…
πλοῦς, genitive πλόου πλοῦ, and in later writings πλοός (Acts 27:9; Arrian peripl. erythr., p. 176 § 61; see νοῦς (and cf. Lob. Paralip., p. 173f)) (πλέω), from Homer, Odyssey 3, 169 down; voyage: Acts 21:7; Acts 27:9, Acts 27:10 (Wis. 14:1).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Maritime Activities3 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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