Quick Definition
πλόος, οῦς n.m. a voyage
Strong's Definition
from 4126; a sail, i.e. navigation
KJV Usage: course, sailing, voyage
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πῶλος, του, ὁ (in class. Grk. ἡ also), [Lat. pullus, O. H. G. folo, Eng. foal; perh. allied with παῖς ; cf. Curtius § 387]; 1. a colt, the young of the horse: so very often fr. Hom. down. 2. univ. α young creature: Ael. v. ἢ. 4, 9; spec. of the young of various animals; in the N. T. of a young ass, an ass’s colt: Mt. xxi. 2,5,7; Mk. xi. 2, [3 Limrg.], 4,5, 7; Lk. xix. 30, 33, 35; Jn. xii. 15, (also in Geopon.); Sept. several times for ‘vy; for τῇ δ a female ibex, Prov. ν. 19.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** πλόος, πλούς gen., -όου, -οῦ (and in late writers also πλοός, like νοός from νοῦς), ὁ
(< πλέω), [in LXX: Wi 14:1*;]
a voyage: Ac 21:7 27:9, 10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πῶλος. For πῶλος = ““ foal,” ““ colt,’”’ of an ass, as in the NT, cf. P Lille I. 8° (iii/B.c.) ὄνους θηλείας B καὶ πώλους B. In P Oxy IX. 12221 (iv/a.D.) the writer instructs his son—8és τῷ ἀδελφῷ ᾿Αμῴζμ)ωνιανῷ τὸν πῶλον elva ἐνεχθῇ μοι, “give your brother Ammonianus the colt that it may be brought to me.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πλόος (ploos) — voyage. πλόος, ὁ, Attic dialect contraction πλοῦς; plural πλοῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; dative πλοῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, a genitive singular πλοός, as if of third declension (compare χοῦς A), [Refs 5th c.BC+]: (πλέω):—sailing, voyage, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πλοῦν στεῖλαι, ποιεῖσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔξω πλόου out of one's course, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μῆκός ἐστι πλόος ἡμέραι τέσσερες its length is four days' sail, [Refs]; ἐκ τῶν πλόων when the voyage is done, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. time or tide for sailing, ὡραῖος π., εἰαρινὸς π., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἡμῖν ἐγίγνετο, i.e. the wind was fair, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλῷ χρήσασθαι to have a fair wind, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. proverbial, δεύτερος π. 'the next best way', of those who try another scheme if the first fails (from those who use oars when the wind fails, ὁ δ. π. ἐστι δήπου λεγόμενος, ἂν ἀποτύχῃ τις οὐρίου (conjecture), κώπαισι πλεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεύτερος δὲ π..., πειρᾶσθαι.. the next best thing is to try.., [Refs 4th c.BC+], compare Κόρινθο; ἡμέτερος ὁ π. 'our innings', [Refs]
4. later, ={ὁδός}, βαιὸν π. αἰὲν ὀκέλλει, of the crawling of a serpent, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
4. b highway, ὑλήεντα διὰ πλόον ἐρχομένοισι [Refs 5th c.BC+]