Quick Definition
a band, fastening
Strong's Definition
a fastening (tiller-rope)
Derivation: feminine of a derivative (at the second stage) from the same as G2218 (ζυγός);
KJV Usage: band
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ζευκτηρία, ζευκτηρίας, ἡ (from the adjective ζευκτήριος, fit for joining or binding together), a band, fastening: Act_27:40. Found nowhere else.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ζευκτηρία zeuktēria 1x
a fastening, band, Act_27:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ζευκτήριος , -α -ον
( < ζεύγνυμι ),
fit for joining. As subst .,
(a) ζευκτήριον , τό = ζυγόν , a yoke;
(b) ζευκτηρία , -ας , ἡ = ζεύγλη , the crossbar of a double rudder: Act_27:40 (found nowhere else).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ζευκτηρία [page 272]
ζευκτηρία , which occurs in Act_27:40 and according to Grimm is found nowhere else, may now be illustrated from the neut. plur. of the adj. in P Oxy VI. 934 .5 (iii/A.D.) εἰς τιμὴν ζευκτηρίων δραχμὰς ἑξήκοντα , as the price of yokes 60 drachmae : cf. PSI IV. 286 .20 (iii/iv A.D.), CP Herm I. 95 .18 . In P Lond 1177 .167 (A.D. 113) (= III. p. 185) σχοινίων καὶ ζευκτηρίων , and in P Flor I. 16 .26 (A.D. 239) τοῦ τε φο̣ρέτρου̣ [κ ]αὶ μηχανῆς καὶ ζευκτηρίω̣(ν ) the word is used in connexion with the mechanism of a water-wheel.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ζευκτήριος, -α -ον
(ζεύγνυμι),
fit for joining. As subst.,
__(a) ζευκτήριον, τό = ζυγόν, a yoke;
__(b) ζευκτηρία, -ας, ἡ = ζεύγλη, the crossbar of a double rudder: Act.27:40 (found nowhere else).†
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