Quick Definition
I swim
Strong's Definition
to plunge into water
Derivation: from (a diver);
KJV Usage: swim
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κολυμβάω, κολυμβω; to dive, to swim: Act_27:43. (Plato, Prot., p. 350 a.; Lach., p. 193 c., and in later writings) (Compare: ἐκκολυμβάω.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κολυμβάω kolymbaō 1x
to dive; in NT to swim, Act_27:43
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** κολυμβάω , -ῶ ,
[in AI.: Isa_25:11 * ;]
to dive, plunge into the sea: Act_27:43 ( cf. ἐκ -κολνμβάω ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κολυμβάω [page 353]
For this verb which properly means dive, but is used = swim in Act_27:43 , Hobart (p. 283) refers to the medical writer Galen, by whom it is used of invalids taking exercise in a swimming-bath (κολυμβήθρα ). With ἐκκολυμβάω in Act_27:42 we may compare Syll 803 .20 (iii/B.C.) οὗτος [ἀ ]ποκολυμ [βάσ ]ας εἰς τὰν θ [άλασσ ]αν ἔπειτα δενδρύων ( lurking in the wood ) εἰς τόπον ἀφίκετο ξηρόν . The subst. κολυμβητής is found in Preisigke 3747 (i/B.C.). MGr κολυμπῶ , dive, swim.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κολυμβάω "to plunge into the sea", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κολυμβάω, -ῶ
[in AI.: Isa.25:11 * ;]
to dive, plunge into the sea: Act.27:43 (cf. ἐκ-κολνμβάω).†
(AS)