βολίζω: 1 aorist ἐβολισα; (βολίς a missile, dart; a line and plummet with which mariners sound the depth of the sea, a sounding-lead); to heave the lead, take soundings: Act_27:28. (Besides only in Eustathius; (middle intransitive, to sink in water, Geoponica, 6, 17).)

βολίζω bolizō 2x to take soundings, sound Act_27:28

*† βολίζω ( < βολίς , in sense of sounding-lead ), to heave the lead, take soundings: Act_27:28 .†

βολίζω [page 114] The adj. βόλιμος is found quater in Syll 140 (B.C. 353 2), meaning leaden : see Dittenberger on l. .26 and Boisacq s.v. μόλυβδος . Thackeray ( Gr. i. p. 106) notes μόλιμος and βόλιβον from MSS of LXX, which may illustrate the survival of some of the widely divergent forms current in earlier Greek dialects. The name of lead is supposed to have been borrowed very early (before Homer), perhaps from Iberians in Spain : cf. reff. in Walde Lat. Etym. .2 s.v. plumbum. It is at least possible that βολίς in the sense plummet (acc. to Homeric scholia) may be really the lead, with form affected by βολή etc. from βάλλω . However this may be, the verb βολίζω sound is very instructive as a ἅπ . εἰρ . in Act_27:28 : eleven centuries later, the Homeric scholar Eustathius uses it as familiar from ancient Greek, and he does not mention Luke or hint that he remembered what for us happens to be the solitary example of the word : see the quotations from Eustathius in Wetstein ad loc. It is sufficiently obvious that Luke did not coin the word, and its history may help less obvious cases elsewhere.

βολίζω [Etym: From βολίς] "to heave the lead, take soundings", NTest.

βολίζω (βολίς, in sense of sounding-lead), to heave the lead, take soundings: Act.27:28.† (AS)