Quick Definition
a ship, vessel
Strong's Definition
a boat (of any size)
Derivation: from or (to float);
KJV Usage: ship
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ναῦς, accusative ναῦν, ἡ (from ναῷ or νεώ, to flow, float, swim), a ship, vessel of considerable size: Act_27:41. (From Homer down; the Sept. several times for ΰπΔι and ΰπΔιΘδ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ναῦς naus 1x
a ship, vessel, Act_27:41
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ναῦς , νεώς ,
acc ναῦν , ἡ ,
[in LXX for H6041 , H592 ;]
a ship: Act_27:41 (elsewhere in NT always τ . πλοῖον ; v. M , Pro_25:1-28 f .; Bl., Gosp., 186 f .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ναῦς [page 423]
ναῦς is freely found in Aelian, Josephus, and other writers of the literary Κοινή , and, though not common, it occurs also in the vernacular, e.g. in one of the Zeno letters, PSI V. 533 .13 (iii/B.C.) εἰς τὴν ναῦν , and in a business document P Lond 1164( h ) .7 (A.D. 212) (= III. p. 164) διὰ̣ ν̣εὼς σὺν ἱστῷ . Cf. from the inscrr. Cagnat IV. 33 d. .11 (B.C. 47) μήτε αὐτοῖς ] ὅπλοις χρήμα [σι ν ]αυσὶ βοηθ [είτω , Syll 348(= .8 763) .7 (B.C. 46) ἐν νηΐ , ib. 499 (= .3 716) (end of ii/B.C.) ἐν τ [αῖ ]ς ἱεραῖς ναυσίν . The nom. plur. νῆες is seen on the Rosetta stone, OGIS 90 .20 (B.C. 196) : for a later use of ναῦς in this same case, cf. Mayser Gr. p. 269 n. .1 , and see Lob. Phryn. p. 170 αἱ νῆες ἐρεῖς , οὐχ αἱ ναῦς , σόλοικον γάρ . Ναῦς is cited twenty times in HR from the LXX, but its solitary occurrence in the NT is in Act_27:41 , where Blass ad l. (cf. Philology , p. 186) thinks the word is taken from an Homeric phrase. That Luke should use Homer is natural : cf. also the Epic words and forms appearing in late Hellenistic and vulgar epitaphs, especially the metrical ones. For ναῦλον πλοίου the fare on a boat, see Wilcken Ostr i. p. 386 f. and cf. P Goodsp Cairo 30 ii. 13 (A.D. 191 2) with the editor s note.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ναῦς "a ship", Hom. , etc.; ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν "at the ships", i. e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, Il. ; ναῦς μακραί, Lat. naves longae, ships of war, which were built long for speed, while the merchant-vessels (ναῦς στρόγγυλαι, γαῦλοι, ὁλκάδες) were round-built, Hdt. , etc
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ναῦς, νεώς accusative ναῦν, ἡ,
[in LXX for עָנִי, אֲנִיָּה ;]
a ship: Act.27:41 (elsewhere in NT always τ. πλοῖον; see M, Pro.25:1-28 f.; Bl., Gosp., 186 f.).†
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