elaunō (to drive)

Meaning

Usually translated “being driven”, “rowing” and “was driven”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

being driven 2
rowing 1
he was driven 1
having rowed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Mark 1
Luke 1
John 1
James 1
2 Peter 1

5 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Mark 6:48And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
Luke 8:29(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
John 6:19So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
James 3:4Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Greek dictionary

ἐλαύνω elaunō · to drive

ἐλαύνω [in LXX: Isa.41:7 (הָלַם) Isa.33:21 (שַׁיִט), etc. ;] to drive: of the wind, Jas.3:4, 2Pe.2:17; of sailors rowing or sailing a boat, Mrk.6:48, Jhn.6:19; of demons, Luk.8:29 (cf. ἀπ-, συν-ελαύνω).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “drive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DRIVE, verb transitive

preterit tense Drove, [formerly drave; participle passive Driven, G.]

To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force.
To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market.
To chase; to hunt.
To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them.

All definitions and other forms of “drive”

To impel to greater speed.
To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.
To force; to compel; in a general sense.
To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on.
To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.
To impel by influence of passion.
To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.
To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.
To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.
To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.

DRIVE, verb intransitive

To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.
To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.
To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London.
To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.
To aim a blow; to strike at with force.

DRIVE, noun

Passage in a carriage.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.