Quick Definition
σάλος, ου, ὁ n.m. the tossing of the sea in a tempest
Strong's Definition
probably from the base of 4525; a vibration, i.e. (specially), billow
KJV Usage: wave
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | ἅλλομαι
14.26 · Physical Events and States · Events Involving Liquids and Dry Masses
surging waves the tossing motion of large waves on a body of water
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Σαῦλος, -ov, 6, (see Σαούλ, 2), Saul, the Jewish name of the apostle Paul [ef. Woldemar Schmidt in Herzog ed. 2 xi. p. 357 sq.; Conybeare and Howson, St. Paul, i. 150 8564. (Am. ed.); Farrar, St. Paul, ch. xix. fin.; B.D. Am. ed. s.v. Names]: Acts vii. 58; viii. 1, 3; ix. 1, 8,11, 19 Rec.. 22, 24, 26 Rec.; xi. 25,30; xii. 25; xiii. 1 sq. 7, 9.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σάλος salos 1x
agitation, tossing, rolling, spc. of the sea, Lk. 21:25*
Abbott-Smith 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: Lk 21:25.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Σαῦλος, the Grecized form of the Apostle Paul’s Jewish name Σαούλ. For the phrase Σαῦλος ὁ kal Παῦλος (Ac 139), see s.v. Παῦλος, and cf. the discussion on ὁ καί s.v. ὁ (10). No instances of the name Zaddos are given in Preisigke’s Namenbuch, but an indecl. proper name Σαῦλ is cited from P Flor III. 28017 (a.p. 514) τοῦ θαυμασ(ιωτάτου) Ladd aktovaplov.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σάλος (salos) — tossing. σάλος [ᾰ], ὁ, tossing motion, of an earthquake, χθονὸς νῶτα σεισθῆναι σάλῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially rolling swell of the sea, πόντου σ., πόντιος σ., [Refs]
2. open roadstead, roads, opposed to a harbour, ἐν σάλῳ στῆναι, ={σαλεύειν}[Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II. of ships or persons in them, tossing on the sea, ἐκ πολλοῦ σ. εὕδοντ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀκτῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καρηβαρεῖν ὑπὸ σ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: metaphorically of the ship of the state, τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος θεοὶ πολλῷ σ. σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔσχε.. ὁ ἀγὼν ὑποτροπὴν καὶ σ. began to waver, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II.2. distemper, restlessness, perplexity, [LXX+2nd c.AD+]