Fleet
אֳנִיStrong’s H0590oni (o-ni)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Oni is the Hebrew word usually translated “ship of” and “ship”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.”
Meaning
- Fleet, ships
How it's translated
- ship of 4
- and ship 1
- in the ship 1
- a ship of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 4
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 9:27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:11And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
- 1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- Isaiah 33:21But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Hebrew dictionary
אֳנִי oni · fleet
fleet, ships
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fleet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLEET, noun
[Fleet and float seem to be allied. But whether they are formed from the root of flow, or whether the last consonant is radical, is not obvious. See Float.]
All definitions and other forms of “fleet”
FLEET, adjective
[Eng. to flit.]
- Swift of pace; moving or able to move with rapidity; nimble; light and quick in motion, or moving with lightness and celerity; as a fleet horse or dog.
- Moving with velocity; as fleet winds.
- Light; superficially fruitful; or thin; not penetrating deep; as soil.
- Skimming the surface.
FLEET, verb intransitive
- To fly swiftly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
- To be in a transient state.
- to float.
FLEET, verb transitive
- to skim the surface; to pass over rapidly; as a ship that fleets the gulf.
- To pass lightly, or in mirth and joy; as, to fleet away time. [Not used.]
- To skim milk. [Local, in England.]
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.