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Greek verb · G5284

ὑποπλέω

hypopleohoop-op-leh'-o

to sail the lee

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: hypopléō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5284is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5284

to sail under the lee of

The King James renders it: sail under.

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

hypopleo is rendered "to sail the lee". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 27:4After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

The first use

After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

Acts 27:4ὑπεπλεύσαμεν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Acts.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • we sailed under2

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.

ὑποπόδιονhypopodionfootstoolUses7
ὑποπνέωhypopneoto blow gentlyUses1

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling 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

  • ὑπεπλεύσαμεν2

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person plural2V-AAI-1P

Acts

two uses
  • After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

    Acts 27:4

    • ὑπεπλεύσαμενhupepleusamenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we sailed under
  • After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

    Acts 27:7

    • ὑπεπλεύσαμενhupepleusamenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we sailed under

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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