Quick Definition
σκάφη, ης, ἡ n.f. a boat
Strong's Definition
a "skiff" (as if dug out), or yawl (carried aboard a large vessel for landing)
KJV Usage: boat
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης | σκάπτω
6.45 · Artifacts · Boats and Parts of Boats
small boat, skiff a small boat which was normally kept aboard a larger ship and used by sailors in placing anchors, repairing the ship, or saving lives in the case of storms In some languages σκάφη is equivalent to ‘rowboat’ or ‘lifeboat.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σκάφη, -ης, ἡ, (σκάπτω (a. v.]), ἔτ. [Aeschyl. and] Hat. down, anything dug out, hollow vessel, trough, tray, tub; spec. a boat: Acts xxvil. 16, 30, 32.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σκάφη skaphē 3x
pr. anything excavated or hollowed; a boat, skiff, Acts 27:16, 30, 32*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** σκάφη, -ης, ἡ
(< σκάπτω), [in LXX: Da LXX Bel 32, TH ib. 33 * ;]
anything scooped out, esp. a light boat, skiff: Ac 27:16, 30, 32.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σκάφη, “©a small boat” (Ac 2715, 80, 82): cf. P Cairo Zen I. §9025° (B.c. 28 or 29) σκάφης τρισκάλμου, ‘a boat with three sculls,” BGU IV. 115718 (B.c. 10) τρίτον μέρους τῆς δηλουμένης σκάφης, and P Lond 256 (a)! (A.p. {1-5) (=I. p. 99) κυβερνήτης σκάφης δημοσίας, ‘pilot ofa public vessel.” For the dim. σκαφίδιον see P Oxy VII. 10687 (iii/a.D.) διαπέμψετό μοι σκαφίδιον ἀρταβῶν ἑξήκοντα, ‘he sent mea skiff of sixty artabae burden,” as contrasted with πλοῖον, previously mentioned.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σκάφη (skaphē) — lifeboat. σκᾰφ-η, ἡ:
I. trough, tub, basin, or bowl [Refs 8th c.BC+]; kneading-trough or baker's tray, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; wash-tub, bath, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; bowl or tray on which offerings were carried by metoeci at the Panathenaea, etc., [Refs]; compare σκαφηφόρος: proverbial, τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγει [Refs 1st c.AD+]
I.2. light boat, skiff, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (with a pun on signification [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; used for cargo, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; boat-load, ξύλων [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
I.3. child's cradle, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.4. grave, [Refs]
II. concave sun-dial, [Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Prob. originally something dug or scooped out, from σκάπτω.)