Lexicon bolizó: to heave the lead Original Word: βολίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: bolizó Phonetic Spelling: (bol-id'-zo) Short Definition: I cast the line for sounding, I sound Definition: I cast the line (for sounding), I sound. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom bolisDefinitionto heave the lead NASB Translationtook soundings (1), took...sounding (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1001: βολίζωβολίζω: 1 aorist ἐβολισα; ( βολίς a missile, dart; a line and plummet with which mariners sound the depth of the sea, a sounding-lead); to heave the lead, take soundings: Acts 27:28. (Besides only in Eustathius; (middle intransitive, to sink in water, Geoponica, 6, 17).)
Strong's to take soundings From bolis; to heave the lead -- sound. see GREEK bolis |
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