Lexicon hupozónnumi: to undergird Original Word: ὑποζώννυμιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hupozónnumi Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-od-zone'-noo-mee) Short Definition: I under-gird Definition: I under-gird, as to strengthen a ship against the waves. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom hupo and zónnumiDefinitionto undergird NASB Translationundergirding (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5269: ὑποζώννυμιὑποζώννυμι; from Herodotus down; to under-gird: τό πλοῖον to bind a ship together laterally with ὑποζωματα ( Plato, de rep. 10, p. 616 c.), i. e. with girths or cables, to enable it to survive the force of waves and tempest, Acts 27:17 (where see Overbeck (or Hackett; especially Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck, etc., pp. 107ff, 204ff. (cf. βοήθεια))). ( Polybius 27, 3, 3.)
Strong's undergird, brace From hupo and zonnumi; to gird under, i.e. Frap (a vessel with cables across the keel, sides and deck) -- undergirt. see GREEK hupo see GREEK zonnumi |
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