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Ship

סְפִינָהStrong’s H5600

sephinah (se-phi-nah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Sephinah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ship”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.”
Jonah 1:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ship, vessel
How it's translated
  • the ship 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Jonah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    סְפִינָה sephinah · ship

    ship, vessel

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    SHIP, noun

    [Latin scapha; from the root of shape.]

    In a general sense, a vessel or building of a peculiar structure, adapted to navigation, or floating on water by means of sails. In an appropriate sense, a building of a structure or form fitted for navigation, furnished with a bowsprit and three masts, a main-mast, a fore-mast and a mizen-mast, each of which is composed a lower-mast, a top-mast and top-gallant-mast, and square rigged. Ships are of various sizes and are for various uses; most of them however fall under the denomination of ships of war and merchant's ships.

      All definitions and other forms of “ship”

        SHIP, verb transitive

        1. To put on board of a ship or vessel of any kind; as, to ship goods at Liverpoll for New York.
        2. To transport in a ship; to convey by water.
        3. To receive into a ship or vessel; as, to ship at sea.

        SHIP'-BUILDER, noun

        [ship and builder.]

        A man whose occupation is to construct

          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.