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To sail

καταπλέωStrong’s G2668

katapleō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Katapleō is the Greek word usually translated “sailed down”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.”
Luke 8:26 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “sailed down”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • they sailed down 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    καταπλέω katapleō · to sail

    κατα-πλέω, -ῶ to sail down, sail to land, put in: εἰς τ. χώραν, Luk.8:26.† (AS)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SAIL, noun

    [Latin sal, salt.]

    1. In navigation, a spread of canvas, or an assemblage of several breadths of canvas, [or some substitute for it, ] sewed together with a double seam at the borders, and edged with a cord called the bolt-rope, to be extended on the masts or yards for receiving the impulse of wind by which a ship is driven.
    2. In poetry, wings.
    3. A ship or other vessel; used in the singular for a single ship, or as a collective name for many.
    4. To strike sail to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting or in sudden gusts of wind.
    All definitions and other forms of “sail”
    1. To bate show or pomp.

    SAIL, verb intransitive

    1. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water.
    2. To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water.
    3. To swim.
    4. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
    5. To be carried in the air, as a balloon.
    6. To pass smoothly along.
    7. To fly without striking with the wings.

    SAIL, verb transitive

    1. To pass or move upon in a ship, by means of sails.
    2. To fly through

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

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.