Quick Definition
ἐποκέλλω v. I force forward, run aground
Strong's Definition
from 1909 and okello (to urge); to drive upon the shore, i.e. to beach a vessel
KJV Usage: run aground
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. ἐπέκειλα | κέλλω (run ashore; urge on, command) · κελεύω
54.18 · Maritime Activities
to run aground (a technical, nautical term) to cause a ship to run up onto or against a shore In some instances it may be necessary to translate ἐπικέλλω as ‘they caused the ship to get stuck in the sand’ or ‘... in the mud.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐπι-κέλλω : [1 aor. ἐπέκειλα]; to run a ship ashore, to bring to land; so fr. Hom. Od. 9, 148 down; ἐπέκειλαν (RG ἐπώκειλαν) τὴν ναῦν, Acts xxvii. 41 L T Tr WH; but in opposition see Meyer ad loc. [Cf. B. Ὁ. Am. ed. p. 3009.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐπικέλλω epikellō 1x
to push a ship to shore, Acts 27:41*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἐπι-κέλλω of a ship, to run ashore: c. acc, Ac 27:41.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐπικέλλω. Blass (Philology of the Cospels, p. 186) finds in the phrase ἐπέκειλαν τὴν ναῦν of Ac 274! 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 vats is not used anywhere else in the NT. On the other hand, poetical phrases often live on in common speech.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐποκέλλω (epokellō) — to run aground. ἐποκέλλω, ={ἐπικέλλω}, run ashore, νέας, τὴν νέα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. of the ship, run aground, be wrecked, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; put in, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of tunnies, [Refs 4th c.BC+]