Lexicon artemón: something hung up or fastened, i.e. a foresail Original Word: ἀρτέμων, ονος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: artemón Phonetic Spelling: (ar-tem'-ohn) Short Definition: a foresail, set on the bow Definition: a foresail, set on the bow. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom artaó (to fasten to) Definitionsomething hung up or fastened, i.e. a foresail NASB Translationforesail (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 736: ἀρτέμωνἀρτέμων, ἀρτεμονος ( L T Tr WH ἀρτεμωνος, cf. Winers Grammar, § 9, 1 d.; ( Buttmann, 24 (22))), ὁ, top-sail (or foresail?) of a ship: Acts 27:40; cf. Meyer at the passage; (especially Smith, Voyage and Shipwr. of St. Paul, p. 192f; Graser in the Philologus, 3rd suppl. 1865, p. 201ff).
Strong's mainsail. From a derivative of arti; properly, something ready (or else more remotely from airo (compare artos); something hung up), i.e. (specially) the topsail (rather foresail or jib) of a vessel -- mainsail. see GREEK arti see GREEK airo see GREEK artos |