Quick Definition
I force forward, run aground
Strong's Definition
to drive upon the shore, i.e. to beach a vessel
Derivation: from G1909 (ἐπί) and (to urge);
KJV Usage: run aground
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐποκέλλω: 1 aorist ἐπώκειλα; to drive upon, strike against: τήν ναῦν (i. e. to run the ship ashore), Act_27:41 R G; see ἐπικέλλω. (Herodotus 6, 16: 7, 182; Thucydides 4, 26.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐπικέλλω epikellō 1x
to push a ship to shore, Act_27:41
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἐπι -κέλλω ,
of a ship, to run ashore: c . acc , Act_27:41 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐπικέλλω (~ ἐποκέλλω ) [page 240]
Blass ( Philology of the Gospels , p. 186) finds in the phrase ἐπέκειλαν τὴν ναῦν of Act_27:41 evidence that Luke was acquainted with Homer (cf. Od. ix. 148, 546) on the grounds that the form ἐπικέλλω is altogether poetical, and that the obsolete ἡ ναῦς is not used anywhere else in the NT. On the other hand, poetical phrases often live on in common speech.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐποκέλλω [Etym: = ἐπικέλλω] "to run" a ship "ashore", Hdt. , Thuc. of the ship, "to run aground", id=Thuc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐπι-κέλλω
of a ship, to run ashore: with accusative, Act.27:41.†
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