Quick Definition
I sail out, sail away
Strong's Definition
to depart by ship
Derivation: from G1537 (ἐκ) and G4126 (πλέω);
KJV Usage: sail (away, thence)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐκπλέω: (imperfect ἐξεπλεον); 1 aorist ἐξέπλευσα; to sail from sail away, depart by ship: ἀπό with the genitive of place, Act_20:6; εἰς with the accusative of place, Act_15:39; Act_18:18. (Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκπλέω ekpleō 3x
to sail out of or from a place, Act_15:39 ; Act_18:18 ; Act_20:6
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἐκ -πλέω , -ῶ ,
to sail away: Act_20:6 ; seq . εἰς , Act_15:39 ; Act_18:18 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκπλέω [page 197]
PSI IV. 444 .1 (iii/B.C.) μετὰ τ̣ὸ ἐκπλεῦσαι εἰσήγαγον κτλ ., Syll 220 .13 (iii/B.C.) πειρατικῶν ἐκπλεόντων ἐκ τοῦ Ἐπιλιμνίου , and the memorial tablet, OGIS 69 .5 (Ptol.), erected by one who had been saved ἐγ μεγάλων κινδύνων ἐκπλεύσας ἐκ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης . For the corresponding subst. cf. ἔκπλωι in P Petr III. 21 ( e ) .5 and P Hib I. 30 .26 (B.C. 300 271), in both cases after an hiatus.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐκπλέω fut. -πλεύσομαι ionic -πλώω aor1 -έπλωσα "to sail out, sail away, weigh anchor", Hdt. , etc.: c. gen. "to sail away from", Soph. metaph., ἐκπλεῖν τοῦ νοῦ, τῶν φρενῶν "to go out of" one's mind, lose one's senses, Hdt. ἐκπλ. τὰς ναῦς "to outsail" the ships, Thuc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-πλέω, -ῶ
to sail away: Act.20:6; before εἰς, Act.15:39 18:18.†
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