Quick Definition
σανίς, ίδος, ἡ n.f. a plank, board
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity; a plank
KJV Usage: board
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ίδος
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σανίς sanis 1x
a board, plank, Acts 27:44*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σανίς, -ίδος, ἡ
[in LXX: Ca 8:9, Ez 27:5 (לוּחַ) * ;]
a board, plank: Ac 27:44
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σανίς. board,” ‘* plank,” as in Ac 273}, occurs in P Flor I. 69** (iii/A.D.) (τοῖς) ἐξηλοῦσι σανίδες(-- δας) [πλ]ατείας ἑτέρου τοίχου τοῦ προκί(ειμένου) πλοίου : cf. 24. The word readily passes into the meaning of a ‘* wooden tablet ” for writing purposes, as in Sy//3.975%° (c. A.D. 250) ἀναγράψαντες εἰς τὴν σανίδα οὗ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ γράμματα παραδό[τ᾽ωσαν εἰς τὸ δημόσιον τῆι βουλῆι. In Herodas VII. 5 it denotes a wooden bench to sit upon. For the dim. σανίδιον see Sy// 366 (=2799)2° (A.D. 38) τό Te ἐργαστήριον αὐτοῦ σανιδίοι[ς] προσηλοῦσθαι, and for the verb σανιδόω see P Lond 1164 (A)? (A.D. 212) (= III. p. 164) πλοῖον. . - σεσανιδί ωἹμένον διὰ νεὼς σὺν ἱστῷ.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σανίς (sanis) — plank. σᾰνίς, ίδος, ἡ, board, plank, timber, σ. πτελεΐνη [NT+3rd c.BC+]:—hence anything made thereof,
1. door, [Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural, folding doors, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κολληταὶ σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely in singular, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῆς σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]
3. wooden floor, especially ship's deck, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. bench, seat, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
5. lid of box, variant in [LXX]
6. in plural, wooden tablets for writing on, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: especiallyat Athens and elsewhere, tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, especially the causes for hearing in the law-courts, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; laws to be proposed, Decrees cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; lists of officers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; names of debtors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Rome, of the tables on which the laws were written, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
6. b plural, painted panels, pictures, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
7. plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (variant{προσδιε-}) πασσάλευσαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
