Isaiah 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
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Sail
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Acts 27:24
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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πλέω
pléō · pleh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to pass in a vessel
Strong's KJV usage: :--sail.
Strong's first: Acts 27:2Strong's last: Acts 27:24
Open full G4126 profile →נֵס
nêç · nace
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
a flag; also a sail; by implication, a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively, a token
Strong's KJV usage: banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 33:23Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:7
Open full H5251 profile →ἀνάγω
anágō · an-ag'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to lead up; by extension to bring out; specially, to sail away
Strong's KJV usage: :--bring (again, forth, up again), depart, launch (forth), lead (up), loose, offer, sail, set forth, take up.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 20:3Strong's last: Acts 20:3
Open full G321 profile →ἀποπλέω
apopléō · ap-op-leh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to set sail
Strong's KJV usage: :--sail away.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 27:1Strong's last: Acts 27:1
Open full G636 profile →σκεῦος
skeûos · skyoo'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
a vessel, implement, equipment or apparatus (literally or figuratively [specially, a wife as contributing to the usefulness of the husband])
Strong's KJV usage: :--goods, sail, stuff, vessel.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 27:17Strong's last: Acts 27:17
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H5251
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
H5251
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
G321
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
no direct Strong's tag
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
G636
And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.
G4126
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.
G4632
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
G4126
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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sail
SAIL, noun [Latin sal, salt.]
1. In navigation, a spread of canvas, or an assemblage of several breadths of canvas, [or some substitute for it, ] sewed together with a double seam at the borders, and edged with a cord called the bolt-rope, to be extended on the masts or yards for receiving the impulse of wind by which a ship is driven. The principal sails are the courses or lower salts, the top-sails and top-gallant-sails.
2. In poetry, wings.
3. A ship or other vessel; used in the singular for a single ship, or as a collective name for many. We saw a sail at the leeward. We saw three sail on our star-board quarter. The fleet consists of twenty sail
To loose sails, to unfurl them.
To make sail to extend an additional quantity of sail
To set sail to expand or spread the sails; and hence; to begin a voyage.
To shorten sail to reduce the extent of sail or take in a part.
1. To strike sail to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting or in sudden gusts of wind.
2. To bate show or pomp.
SAIL, verb intransitive
1. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water. A ship sails from New York for Liverpool. She sails ten knots an hour. She sails well close-hauled.
2. To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water. We sailed from London to Canton.
3. To swim.
Little dolphins, when they sail in the vast shadow of the British whale.
4. To set sail; to begin a voyage. We sailed from New York for Havre, June 15, 1824. We sailed from Cowes for New York, May 10, 1825.
5. To be carried in the air, as a balloon.
6. To pass smoothly along.
As is a wing'd messenger from heaven, when he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, and sails upon the bosom of the air.
7. To fly without striking with the wings.
SAIL, verb transitive
1. To pass or move upon in a ship, by means of sails.
A thousand ships were mann'd to sail the sea.
[This use is elliptical, on or over being omitted.]
2. To fly through
Sublime she sails th' aerial space, and mounts the winged gales.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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