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ὑποζώννυμι

hypozṓnnymi · G5269 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to fasten ropes around, to brace

    (A technical, nautical term) To brace a ship

    Examples

    Acts 27:17 After they had hoisted it up, they used supporting cables in undergirding the ship; and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of Syrtis, they let down the sea anchor and let themselves be driven along in this way.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

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What it acts on, or what is saidObject

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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Contrasting words 1 word
λύω lýō · G3089 · to untie, to loosen, to release
λύω denotes the action of loosening or unbinding, the opposite of girding/binding tightly; where ὑποζώννυμι means to fasten cables tightly around a ship, λύω means to release or untie such bindings
Semantic domains 1 entry
To fasten ropes around, to brace54.25
Acts 27:17 describes the sailors “undergirding the ship” with supporting cables during the storm.
Word family 6 words

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

ζώνη zṓnē · G2223 · belt, girdle · 8×περιζώννυμι perizṓnnymi · G4024 · to gird oneself, to be girded, to be tied around · 6×διαζώννυμι diazṓnnymi · G1241 · to gird, to fasten one’s belt, to tie around the waist · 3×ζώννυμι zṓnnymi · G2224 · to gird, to fasten one’s belt, to tie around the waist · 3×ἀναζώννυμι anazṓnnymi · G328 · to get one’s mind ready for action, to be ready to learn and to think, to be alert · 1×ὑποζώννυμιhypozṓnnymi · G5269
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon from Herodotus down; to under-gird: τό πλοῖον to bind a ship together laterally with…
from Herodotus down; to under-gird: τό πλοῖον to bind a ship together laterally with ὑποζωματα (Plato, de rep. 10, p. 616 c.), i. e. with girths or cables, to enable it to survive the force of waves and tempest, Acts 27:17 (where see Overbeck (or Hackett; especially Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck, etc., pp. 107ff, 204ff. (cf. βοήθεια))). (Polybius 27, 3, 3.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Maritime Activities1 occurrence

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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