G3491: ναῦς (naûs)

G3491 ναῦς (naûs)

Greek

Quick Definition

ναῦς, νεώς, ἡ n.f. a ship, vessel

Strong's Definition

from nao or neo (to float); a boat (of any size)

KJV Usage: ship

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ναῦς (G3491)

noun, f. | acc. ναῦν | ναυαγέω · ναύκληρος · ναῦτης

6.43 · Artifacts · Boats and Parts of Boats

ship a larger ocean-going vessel used for transporting cargo and people The term ναῦς occurs in the NT only in ACT 27:41, where it refers to the ship which was wrecked at Malta. See 6.42.

ACT 27:41

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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ναῦς naus 1x

a ship, vessel, Acts 27:41*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ναῦς, νεώς acc. ναῦν, ἡ,

[in LXX for אֳנִי, אֲנִיָּה;]

a ship: Ac 27:41 (elsewhere in NT always τ. πλοῖον; v. M, Pr., 25 f.; Bl., Gosp., 186 f.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ναῦς is freely found in Aelian, Josephus, and other writers of the literary ΚΚοινή, and, though not common, it occurs also in the vernacular, e.g. in one of the Zeno letters, PSI V. 3318 (iii/B.c.) εἰς τὴν ναῦν, and in a business document P Lond 1164(4)? (A.D. 212) (= III. p. 164) διὰ νεὼς σὺν ἱστῷ. Cf. from the inscrr. (ρα IV. 33%! (B.c. 47) μήτε αὐτοῖς] ὅπλοις χρήμα[σι ν]αυσὶ βοηθ] είτω, Sy// 348 (=* 763)? (B.C. 46) ἐν νηΐ, 25. 499 (= * 716) (end of ii/B.c.) ἐν τ[αῖ]ς ἱεραῖς ναυσίν. The nom. plur. νῆες is seen on the Rosetta stone, OG/S 907° (B.c. 196): for a later use of vats in this same case, cf. Mayser Gr. p. 269 n.', and see Lob. Péryn. Ρ- 170 at νῆες ἐρεῖς, οὐχ αἱ vats, σόλοικον γάρ. Nais is cited twenty times in HR from the LXX, but its solitary occurrence in the NT is in Ac 2742, where Blass ad /. (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% 13 (4.p. 191-2) with the editor’s note.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ναῦς (naus) — ship. ναῦς, ἡ, (see. below) ship, [Refs 8th c.BC+] (but rare in non-literary Hellenistic Greek, once in NT, [NT]; ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν at the ships, i.e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νῆες μακραί ships of war, built long and taper for speed, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to νῆες στρογγύλαι round-built merchant-ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; νέες alone, ={τριήρεις}, opposed to πεντηκόντεροι, [Refs]; νῆες κεναί, i.e. without fighting men in them, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ναῦς μακρά collective for μακραί, [Refs 4th c.BC+]— Attic dialect declension ναῦς, νεώς, νηΐ, ναῦν, dual genitive νεοῖν, plural νῆες, νεῶν (νηῶν is variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; in later writers, nominative plural ναῦς, accusative plural νῆας, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]:— Epic dialect νηῦς, νηός, νηΐ, νῆα, plural νῆες, νηῶν, νηυσί or νήεσσι, νῆας (but also genitive and accusative singular νεός, νέα [the latter as monosyllable in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect genitive and dative plural ναῦφι, -φιν, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; in late Epic dialect, nominative νῆυς uncertain reading in [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; accusative singular and plural νηῦν, νηῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Ionic dialect νηῦς, νεός, νηΐ, νέα, plural νέες, νεῶν, νηυσί (νηυσίν epigram in [Refs 7th c.BC+]; νηός is frequently in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Doric dialect ναῦς (νᾶς[Refs 5th c.BC+] perhaps to be read in [Refs 7th c.BC+] falsa lectio in [Refs 7th c.BC+]; the Epic dialect forms νηός [Refs 5th c.BC+] are probably corrupt. (Cf. Sanskrit naús, Latin nāvis, etc.)