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Waves

κλύδωνStrong’s G2830

kludōn

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Kludōn is the Greek word usually translated “raging” and “wave”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.”
Luke 8:24 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • raging 1
  • to a wave 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • James 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

κλύδων kludōn · waves

κλύδων, -ωνος, ὁ (κλύζω, of the sea, to wash over), [in LXX: Jon.1.4; Jon.1.12 (סַעַר), al. ;] a billow, surge: Luk.8:24, Jas.1:6.† SYN.: κῦμα, a wave (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WAVE, noun

[G.]

  1. A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind.
  2. Unevenness; inequality of surface.
  3. The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.
All definitions and other forms of “wave”

    WAVE, verb intransitive

    1. To play loosely; to move like a wave one way and the other; to float; to undulate.
    2. To be moved, as a signal.
    3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.

    WAVE, verb transitive

    [See Waver.]

    1. To raise into inequalities of surface.
    2. To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.
    3. To waft; to remove any thing floating.
    4. To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion.

    WAVE, verb transitive

    1. To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave good stolen; usually written waive.
    2. To quit; to depart from.
    3. To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion.

    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.