Acts 10:11
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
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Acts 11:5
I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
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ὀθόνη
othónē · oth-on'-ay
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a linen cloth, i.e. (especially) a sail
Strong's KJV usage: :--sheet.
Strong's first: Acts 10:11Strong's last: Acts 11:5
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And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
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I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
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sheet
SHEET, noun [Latin schenda; Gr. The Greek and Latin words signify a table or plate for writing on; Latin scindo, Gr.]
1. A broad piece of cloth used as part of bed-furniture.
2. A broad piece of paper as it comes from the manufacturer. Sheets of paper are of different sizes, as royal, demi, foolscap, pot and post-paper.
3. A piece of paper printed, folede and bound, or formed in to a book in blank, and making four, eight, sixteen or twenty-four pages, etc.
4. Any thing expanded; as a sheet of water or of fire; a sheet of copper, lead or iron.
5. Sheets, plural a book or pamphlet. The following sheets contains a full answer to my opponent.
6. A sail.
SHEET, noun In nautical language, a rope fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail to extend and retain it in a particular situation. When a ship sails with a side-wind, the lower corners of the main and fore-sails are fastened with a tackand a sheet.
SHEET, verb transitive
1. To furnish with sheets. [Little used.]
2. To fold in a sheet [Little used.]
3. To cover as with a sheet; to cover with something broad and thin.
When snow the pasture sheets. Shak.
To sheet home, is to haul home a sheet or extend the sail till the clew is close to the sheet-block.
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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