Strong G4126πλέω

to sail

Transliteration
pleō pleuō
Pronunciation
pleh'-o plyoo'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

The first is another form for the second which is used as an alternate in certain tenses; probably a form of G4150 (through the idea of plunging through the water); to pass in a vessel: - sail. See also G4130 .

Detailed definition

πλέω
[in LXX, before εἰς, Jon.1.3 (בּוֹא), I Est.4:23, Isa.42:10; before ἐπί, 4Ma.7:3; with accusative (poët.), Sir.43:24, 1Ma.13:29 (cf. Act.27:2, Rec.) *;]
to sail: Luk.8:23, Act.27:24; before εἰς, Act.21:3 27:2, 6; ἐπί, Rev.18:17
(cf. ἀπό-, δια-, ἐκ-, κατα-, παρα-, ὑπο-πλέω).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4126 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • sail4
  • sailing1

First verses

  1. Luke 8:23
    But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
  2. Acts 21:3
    Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
  3. Acts 27:2
    And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
  4. Acts 27:6
    And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.
  5. Acts 27:24
    Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πλέω,
Epic dialect πλείω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.34, 16.368)]: Epic dialect imperfect ἀπ-έπλειον [Refs (8.501)]: also Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πλώω (see. below): Attic dialect contraction imperative πλεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 102 (_anapaest meter_))]: future πλεύσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.25, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.22 (ἀνα-), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.29, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.104, etc.; later πλευσοῦμαι “SIG” 402.27 (Chios, 3rd c.BC))], found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.143, 8.1, (ἐπεσ-) [prev. author] 4.13, (συνεκ-) 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.25, (ἀπο-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 370d, 371b, (συμ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 17.19, etc.)]; Doric dialect πλευσοῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.55)]; but 3rd.pers. plural πλεύσονται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“GDI” 5120 B 11,13 (Crete, 3rd c.BC))]; πλεύσω [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 116 (S.V.l.), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.12.3, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.162 (1st c.AD: Nicarchus Epigrammaticus), 245 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus), “OGI” 572.30 (Lycia, 2nd-3rd c.AD))], etc.: aorist 1 ἔπλευσα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 691 (Lyric poetry))], etc.: perfect πέπλευκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 404, etc.:)] —passive, future πλευσθήσομαι (περι-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 5.26.2:)]aorist ἐπλεύσθην[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 6.28.6, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 71.3)]: perfect πέπλευσμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.16, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.12: 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only)]present, imperfect, and future πλεύσομαι (see. above).—Of the Ionic dialect πλώω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses _optative_ πλώοιεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.240,)]participle ἐπι-πλώων[Refs ([prev. work] 284, πλώων “Hymni Homerici” 22.7)]: imperfect πλῶον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.302)]; also shortened aorist ἔπλων, ως, ω, participle πλώς, in the compounds ἀπ-έπλω, ἐπ-έπλως, participle ἐπιπλώς, παρέπλ; and [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)] has ἐπ-έπλω; the present, imperfect, and future forms occur as variants in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)], infinitive πλώειν [Refs (4.156)], participle πλωούσας [Refs (8.10, 22, 42:)]imperfect ἔπλωον[Refs ([prev. work] 41)]; Iterat. πλώεσκον [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 14.656:)]future πλώσομαι (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.5 (πλώσω 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 1044))]; but the aorist 1 forms are read in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, ἔπλωσα 4.148)]; infinitive πλῶσαι [Refs (1.24)]; participle πλώσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.156, 8.49 (also once in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in _compound_ ἐπι-πλώσας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.47))]: perfect παρα-πέπλωκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.99)]; πέπλωκα occurs [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 532, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 878 (_paratragoedia_).)]—Only εε and εει are contracted in Attic dialect (πλέει is falsa lectio in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.28, and πλέετε variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.37). [8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses πλέων)] as monosyllable, πλέων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.183])]:—sail, go by sea, Λακεδαίμονος ἐξ ἐρατεινῆς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.444; Ἰλιόθεν 14.251; ἐπὶ Κέρκυραν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.53; εὐθὺ Λέσβου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.2.11)]; π. ἐπὶ [σῖτον] to fetch it, [Refs ([prev. author] “Oec.” 20.27; ἐπί τι “IG” 12.105.9)]; μετὰ [νάκος] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.69; εἰς Ἐρέτριαν ἐπ᾽ ἄνδρας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240b; more fully, ἐνὶ πόντῳ νηῒ θοῇ πλείοντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.368; νηῒ.. πλέων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.88; πλέεν.. ποντοπορεύων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.278; ἐν τῇ νηΐ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 341d)]; ἐν τῇ θαλάττῃ[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 346b; ἐπλέομεν βορέῃ ἀνέμῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.253; αὔρᾳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 691 (Lyric poetry): with _accusative_ _cognate_, πλεῖθ᾽ ὑγρὰ κέλευθα)] sail the watery ways, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.71; πλεῖν τὴν θάλατταν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.137, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.20, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 100:)] —passive, τὸ πεπλευσμένον [πέλαγος] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.16, compare 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 71.3; πλεῖται ἡ θάλασσα 1st c.AD: Musonius Philosophus “fragment” 18 B p.104 H.; also π. στόλον τόνδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1038; τοῦ πλοῦ τοῦ πεπλευσμένου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.12: _metaphorically_, πλεῖν ὑφειμένῃ δοκεῖ,compare ὑφίημι 111: proverbial, ὁ μὴ πεπλευκὼς οὐδὲν ἑόρακεν κακόν 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 22)]; ἐπὶ γῆς μὴ πλεῖν when on land do not be at sea, i.e. avoid the hazards of tax-farming, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 2nd-3rd c.AD: Clemens Alexandrinus Theologus “Stromateis” 5.5.28.)]
II of ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.360; νέας ἄμεινον πλεούσας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.10, etc.; ὑπὸ τριήρους.. εὖ πλεούσης ἐπεδιώκοντο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.23; ἡ ναῦς ἄριστά μοι ἔπλει 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 21.6; ἔφευγε ταῖς ναυσὶν εὖ πλεούσαις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.16; τριήρης ταχὺ π. [prev. author] “Oec.” 8.8.)]
II.2 of other things, swim, float, τεύχεα καλὰ.. πλῶον καὶ νέκυες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.302; δένδρεα.., τά οἱ πλώοιεν ἐλαφρῶς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.240; [νῆσος] πλέουσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156.)]
II.3 to be conveyed by sea, [σκῦλα] πλέοντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.114.)]
II.4 metaphorically, ταύτης ἔπι πλέοντες ὀρθῆς while [the ship of] our country bearing us is on an even keel, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 190)]; οὐδ᾽ ὅπως ὀρθὴ πλεύσεται (i.e. ἡ πόλις) προείδετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.250; πάντα ἡμῖν κατ᾽ ὀρθὸν πλεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 813d; θεοῦ θέλοντος κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 397; also κέρδους ἕκατι κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 699. (With πλε (ϝ) -, πλευ-)] cf. Sanskrit plávate 'float', 'swim', Latin pluit; with πλω- cf. Gothic flōdus 'river', 'flood', O[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] flćwan 'flow'.)