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Strong's #4627 - σκάφη
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- anything dug out, hollow vessel, trough, tray, tub
- of a boat
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σκᾰφ-η, ἡ:
I trough, tub, basin, or bowl ( Hom. only in Dim. σκαφίς ), Hdt. 4.73, Ar. Ec. 742, etc.; kneading-trough or baker's tray, Timocl. 33, cf. Poll. 10.102; wash-tub, bath, A. Fr. 225, Hp. Steril. 234; bowl or tray on which offerings were carried by metoeci at the Panathenaea, etc., IG 12.844.6, 22.1388.46, al., Semus 5; cf. σκαφηφόρος: prov., τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγει Apostol. 15.95b, cf. Plu. 2.178b, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 41, Jul. Or. 7.208a .
2. light boat, skiff, Ar. Eq. 1315 (with a pun on signf. 1 ), PCair.Zen. 25.5 (iii B.C.), Plb. 1.23.7; used for cargo, BGU 1742.9 (i B.C.); boat-load, ξύλων PGrad. 9.5 (iii B.C.) .
3. child's cradle, Arist. Po. 1454b25, Phylarch. 36 J., Plu. Romans 3:1-31, Sor. 1.106, al., Sch. Ar. Lys. 138 (prob.).
4. grave, BCH 24.394 ( Bithynia ).
II concave sun-dial, Vitr. 9.8.1, Cleom. 1.10, cf. Poll. 6.110 . (Prob. orig. something dug or scooped out, fr. σκάπτω .)
σκάφη, σκάφης, ἡ (σκάπτω (which see)), from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down, anything dug out, hollow vessel, trough, tray, tub; specifically, a boat: Acts 27:16, 30, 32.
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** σκάφη , -ης , ἡ
(< σκάπτω ),
[in LXX: Da LXX Bel 1:32, TH Bel 1:33 *;]
anything scooped out, esp. a light boat, skiff: Acts 27:16; Acts 27:30; Acts 27:32.†
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";groan"; : Mark 7:34, James 5:9 (";the word denotes feeling which is internal and unexpressed,"; Mayor ad l.). Cf. Preisigke 2134.13 (time of the Antonines) Ἡραίδος θανούσης, ἐστέναξαν οἱ θεοί, P Leid Wxxi. 33 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 155) ἔπιτα στενάξας συριγμῷ ἀνταπόδος.
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