Quick Definition
κολυμβάω v. I swim
Strong's Definition
from kolumbos (a diver); to plunge into water
KJV Usage: swim
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἐκκολυμβάω · κολυμβήθρα
15.246 · Linear Movement · Swim
to swim movement through water by the use of limbs A number of languages have several different terms for ‘swim’ depending on whether it is a person, an animal, a fish, or an eel (or a snake). Care must be exercised in choosing the appropriate term for this context.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κολυμβάω, -d; to dive, to swim: Acts xxvii. 43. (Plat. Prot. p. 350 a.; Lach. p. 193 ¢., and in later writ.) (Comp. : ἐκ-κολυμβάω.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κολυμβάω kolymbaō 1x
to dive; in NT to swim, Acts 27:43*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** κολυμβάω, -ῶ,
[in Al.: Is 25:11*;]
to dive, plunge into the sea: Ac 27:43 (cf. ἐκ-κολνμβάω).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κολυμβάω. For this verb which properly means “" dive,” but is used = “‘swim” in Ac 27, 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 Ac 27 we may compare Sy// 803° (iii/B.c.) οὗτος [ἀ]ποκολυμ[βάσἼας els τὰν θάλασσαν ἔπειτα δενδρύων (‘lurking in the wood ”) εἰς τόπον ἀφίκετο ξηρόν. The subst. κολυμβητής is found in Prezsigke 3747 (i/B.c.). MGr κολυμπῶ, “dive,”’ ““ swim.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κολυμβάω (kolumbaō) — to swim. κολυμβ-άω (Doric dialect -φάω accusative to [Refs], dive, plunge headlong, εἰς τὸν Τάρταρον [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. swim, τοὺς δυναμένους κολυμβᾶν [NT]