Quick Definition
the tossing of the sea in a tempest
Strong's Definition
a vibration, i.e. (specially), billow
Derivation: probably from the base of G4525 (σαίνω);
KJV Usage: wave
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σάλος, σάλου, ὁ, the tossing or swell of the sea (R. V. billows): Luk_21:25. (Sophocles, Euripides, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σάλος salos 1x
agitation, tossing, rolling, spc. of the sea, Luk_21:25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σάλος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX for H4132 , etc.;]
in poets and late prose, a tossing , as of an earthquake; esp . the tossing , the rolling swell of the sea: Luk_21:25 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σάλος [page 568]
σάλος is used of a rough sea in Luk_21:25 : cf. Boll Offenbarung , P. 135.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σάλος σά^λος, ὁ, "any unsteady, tossing motion", of an earthquake, Eur. : "the tossing or rolling swell" of the sea, id=Eur. ; so in pl., πόντιοι σάλοι id=Eur. of ships or persons in them, "a tossing on the sea", Soph. : —metaph. of the ship of the state, "tempest-tossing", id=Soph. ; σάλον ἔχειν to be "in distress", Plut.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σάλος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for מוֹט, etc. ;]
in poets and late prose, a tossing, as of an earthquake; esp. the tossing, the rolling swell of the sea: Luk.21:25.†
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