Lexical Summary hypozōnnymi: to undergird Original Word: ὑποζώννυμιTransliteration: hypozōnnymi Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-od-zone'-noo-mee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to undergird Meaning: to undergird Strong's Concordance undergird, braceFrom 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |