Quick Definition
κλύδων, ῶνος, ὁ n.m. rough water
Strong's Definition
from kluzo (to billow or dash over); a surge of the sea (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: raging, wave
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κλύδων, -wvos, 6, (κλύζω, to wash against); fr. Hom. down; a dashing or surging wave, a surge, a violent agitation of the sea: τοῦ ὕδατος, Lk. viii. 24; τῆς θαλάσσης, Jas. i. 6 (Jon. i. 4, 12; Sap. xiv. 5).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κλύδων klydōn 2x
a wave, billow, surge, Lk. 8:24; Jas. 1:6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κλύδων, -ωνος, ὁ
(κλύζω, of the sea, to wash over), [in LXX: Jh 1:4, 12 (סער), al.;]
a billow, surge: Lk 8:24, Ja 1:6.†
SYN.: κῦμα, a wave.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κλύδων. Hort (on Jas 15) has pointed out that the proper sense of κλύδων is always ‘“‘rough water” rather than ‘‘ wave”: cf. Lk 835, τ Macc 614, and to the passages from profane sources cited by Armitage Robinson on Eph 41} add M. Anton. xii. 14. The plur. = “‘waves’’ is found in Vett. Val. p. 3447° with reference to a ship exposed τοῖς. . μυρίοις κλύδωσιν.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κλύδων (kludōn) — waves. κλύδων [ῠ], ωνος, ὁ, wave, billow, and collectively, surf, rough water, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. πελάγιος, θαλάσσιος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. in Medicine texts, splashing in the stomach and chest, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of sound heard in pleurisy, [Refs]; ἢν κ. ὑγρῶν ἀναπνέῃ ἐς τὰς διαπνοάς flood of humours, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ofinternal water in dropsy, [Refs]
II. metaphorically, κ. κακῶν sea of troubles, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἔφιππος flood of chariots, [Refs 5th c.BC+]