Greek

Bow

πρῷραStrong’s G4408

prōra

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Prōra is the Greek word usually translated “bow”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,”

Acts 27:30 KJV

Meaning

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

How it's translated

bow 2

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

Where it's used most

Acts 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Acts 27:41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

Greek dictionary

πρῷρα prōra · bow

πρῷρα (Rec. incorrectly πρώρα, see Bl., § 3, 3; LS, see word), -ης (for Att.. -ας, see Bl., § 7, 1; Mayser, l 2), ἡ, the forward part of a ship, the prow: Act.27:30; opposite to πρύμνα, ib. Act.27:41.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BOW, verb transitive

To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines.
To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head.
To bend or incline towards, in condescension.
To depress; to crush; to subdue.

All definitions and other forms of “bow”

BOW, verb intransitive

To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down.

To stoop; to fall upon the knees.
To sink under pressure.

BOW, noun

An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.

BOW, noun

[See bow to bend.]

An instrument of war, and hunting, made of wood, or other elastic matter, with a string fastened to each end. The bow being bent by drawing the string, and suddenly returning to its natural state by its elastic force, throws an arrow to a great distance, and with force sufficient to kill an animal. It is of two kinds, the long-bow, and the cross-bow, arbalest or arbalest. The use of the bow is called archery.

Any thing bent, or in form of a curve; the rainbow; the doubling of a string in a knot; the part of a yoke which embraces the neck; etc.
A small machine, formed with a stick and hairs, which being drawn over the strings of an instrument of music, causes it to sound.
A beam of wood or brass, with three long screws that direct a lathe of wood or steel to any arch; used in forming drafts of ships, and projections of the sphere, or wherever it is necessary to draw large arches.
An instrument for taking the sun's altitude at sea, consisting of a large arch of ninety degrees graduated, a shank or staff, a side-vane, a sight-vane, and a horizon-vane; now disused.
An instrument in use among smiths for turning a drill; with turners, for turning wood; with hatters, for breaking fur and wool.
Bows of a saddle, are the two pieces of wood laid archwise to receive the upper part of a horse's back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight.
bow of a ship, is the rounding part of her side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow.

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.