Lexical Summary apophortizomai: to discharge a cargo Original Word: ἀποφορτίζομαιTransliteration: apophortizomai Phonetic Spelling: (ap-of-or-tid'-zom-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to discharge a cargo Meaning: to discharge a cargo Strong's Concordance unloadFrom apo and the middle voice of phortizo; to unload -- unlade. see GREEK apo see GREEK phortizo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 670: ἀποφορτίζομαιἀποφορτίζομαι; (φορτίζω to load; φόρτος a load), to disburden oneself; τί, to lay down a load, unlade, discharge: τόν γόμον, of a ship, Acts 21:3; cf. Meyer and DeWette at the passage; Winers Grammar, 349f (328f). (Elsewhere also used of sailors lightening ship during a storm in order to avoid shipwreck: Philo de praem. et poen. § 5 κυβερνήτης, χειμωνων ἀπιγινομενων, ἀποφορτίζεται; Athen. 2, 5, p. 37 c. and following, where it occurs twice.) |
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