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σκάφη

skáphē · G4627 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. small boat, skiff

    A small boat which was normally kept aboard a larger ship and used by sailors in placing anchors, repairing the ship, or saving lives in the case of storms

    Examples

    Acts 27:16 Running under the shelter of a small island called Cauda, we were able to get the ship’s boat under control only with difficulty.

    Acts 27:30 But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

    Acts 27:32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

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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Near synonyms 2 words
πλοῖον ploîon · G4143 · boat, ship
General Greek term for any watercraft from small boats to large ships; σκάφη is more specifically a small boat/skiff, often a lifeboat or tender carried by a larger vessel, making πλοῖον a broader near-synonym.
πλοιάριον ploiárion · G4142 · small boat
Diminutive of πλοῖον, specifically denoting a small boat; overlaps closely with σκάφη in designating smaller watercraft, though σκάφη may emphasize the skiff's function as a tender or its dugout construction.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Small boat, skiff6.45
The noun names a small ship's boat towed behind a larger vessel. Luke records that during the storm, the sailors “were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea” (Acts 27:30).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σκάφης, ἡ (σκάπτω (which see)), from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down, anything dug out,…
σκάφης, ἡ (σκάπτω (which see)), from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down, anything dug out, hollow vessel, trough, tray, tub; specifically, a boat: Acts 27:16, Acts 27:30, Acts 27:32.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Boats and Parts of Boats3 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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