Greek noun (feminine) · G4627
σκάφη
skapheskaf'-ay
lifeboat
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: skáphē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4627is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4627
a "skiff" (as if dug out), or yawl (carried aboard a large vessel for landing)
The King James renders it: boat.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
skaphe is rendered "lifeboat". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 27:16Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
Acts 27:16σκάφης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lifeboat3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σκάφης2
- σκάφην1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Acts
three uses
Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.
- σκάφηςskaphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: lifeboat
Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
- σκάφηνskaphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lifeboat
So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.
- σκάφηςskaphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: lifeboat
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.