ἐλαύνω; perfect participle ἐληλακως; passive (present ἐλαύνομαι); imperfect ἠλαυνομην; to drive: of the wind driving ships or clouds, Jas_3:4; 2Pe_2:17; of sailors propelling a vessel by oars, to row, Mar_6:48; to be carried in a ship, to sail, Joh_6:19 (often so in Greek writings from Homer down; often also with νῆα or ναῦν added); of demons driving to some place the men whom they possess, Luk_8:29. (Compare: ἀπελαύνω, συνελαύνω.) STRONGS NT 1643: ἐλάωἐλάω, see ἐλαύνω.

ἐλαύνω elaunō 5x to drive, urge forward, spur on, Luk_8:29 ; Jas_3:4 ; 2Pe_2:17 ; to impel a vessel by oars, to row, Mar_6:48 ; Joh_6:19

ἐλαύνω , [in LXX : Isa_41:7 ( H1986 ) Isa_33:21 ( H7885 ), etc.;] to drive: of the wind, Jas_3:4 , 2Pe_2:17 ; of sailors rowing or sailing a boat, Mar_6:48 , Joh_6:19 ; of demons, Luk_8:29 ( cf. ἀπ -, συν -ελαύνω ).†

ἐλαύνω [page 201] ἐλαύνω is found in the illiterate P Fay III .10 (A.D. 95 6) λέγον ( l. ων ) ὥτι ( l. ὅτι ) σὺ εἴρηχας πεζῶι [τὰ χ ]υρίδια ἐλάσαι , saying that you had told him to drive the pigs on foot For ships driven by the wind, as Jas_3:4 , cf. Preisigke 997 (iv/A.D.) ἥκω εἰς τὸν τόπον ἀπὸ Συένης καταπλέων ὑπὸ χειμῶνος ἐλασθείς , where note the late form of the aor. pass. The verb is used in connexion with horses in Wόnsch AF 4 .60 (iii/A.D.) οἱ ἵπποι οὓς μέλλουσιν ἐλαύνειν .

ἐλαύνω [Etym: ἐλάω] Radic. sense : "to drive, drive on, set in motion", of driving flocks, Hom. ; so aor. mid. ἠλασάμην Il. : often of chariots, "to drive", id=Il. , Hdt. ; also, ἐλ. ἵππον "to ride" it, id=Hdt. ; ἐλ. νῆα "to row" it, Od. :—in this sense the acc. was omitted, and the Verb became intr., "to go in a chariot, to drive", μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἐλάαν (sc. ἵππους) he whipped them "on", Il. ; βῆ δ᾽ ἐλάαν ἐπὶ κύματα he "drove on" over the waves, id=Il. ; διὰ νύκτα ἐλάαν "to travel" the night through, Od. ; — "to ride", Hdt. , etc.; "to march", id=Hdt. ; "to row", Od. in this intr. sense, it sometimes took an acc. loci, γαλήνην ἐλαύνειν "to sail" the calm sea, i. e. over it, id=Hdt. ; ἐλαύνειν δρόμον "to run" a course, Ar. "to drive away", like ἀπελαύνω, of stolen cattle, Hom. , Xen. : —so in Mid., Hom. "to drive away, expel", Il. , Trag. "to drive" to extremities, ἄδην ἐλόωσι πολέμοιο will "harass" him till he has had enough of war, Il. ; ἄδην ἐλάαν κακότητος "shall persecute" him till he has had enough, Od. :—then in attic "to persecute, attack, harass", Soph. , etc. intr. in expressions like ἐς τοσοῦτον ἤλασαν, "they drove it" so far (where πρᾶγμα must be supplied), Hdt. :—hence, "to push on, go on", Eur. , Plat. "to strike", ἐλάτηισιν πόντον ἐλαύνοντες, cf. Lat. remis impellere, Il. "to strike" with a weapon, but never with a missile, id=Il. :— c. dupl. acc., τὸν μὲν ἔλασ᾽ ὦμον him "he struck" on the shoulder, id=Il. ; χθόνα ἤλασε μετώπωι "struck" earth with his forehead, Od. "to drive or thrust" through, δόρυ διὰ στήθεσφιν ἔλασσε Il. ; and in Pass. "to go through", id=Il. in metaph. senses: "to beat with" a hammer, Lat. ducere, to beat out metal, Il. ; περὶ δ᾽ ἕρκος ἔλασσε κασσιτέρου around "he made" a fence "of beaten" tin, id=Il. "to draw a line of" wall or a trench, Lat. ducere murum, Hom. , etc.; τεῖχος ἐς τὸν ποταμὸν τοὺς ἀγκῶνας ἐλήλαται the wall "has its" angles "carried down" to the river, Hdt. ; ὄγμον ἐλαύνειν "to work one's way" down a ridge or swathe in reaping or mowing, Il. ; ὄρχον ἀμπελίδος ἐλ. "to draw" a line of vines, i. e. "plant" them "in line", Ar. κολωιὸν ἐλαύνειν "to prolong" the brawl, Il.

ἐλαύνω [in LXX: Isa.41:7 (הָלַם) Isa.33:21 (שַׁיִט), etc. ;] to drive: of the wind, Jas.3:4, 2Pe.2:17; of sailors rowing or sailing a boat, Mrk.6:48, Jhn.6:19; of demons, Luk.8:29 (cf. ἀπ-, συν-ελαύνω).† (AS)