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Strong's #2860 - κολυμβάω
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- to dive, to swim
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κολυμβ-άω
(Dor. κολυμβ-φάω acc. to EM 526.2),
1. dive, plunge headlong, εἰς τὸν Τάρταρον Pherecr. 108.21; εἰς τὰ φρέατα Pl. Prt. 350a, cf. La. 193c, Str. 17.1.44, etc.; εἰς κολυμβήθραν μύρου Alex. 300.
2. swim, τοὺς δυναμένους κολυμβᾶν Acts 27:43, cf. Hippiatr. 26.
κολυμβάω, κολυμβω; to dive, to swim: Acts 27:43. (Plato, Prot., p. 350 a.; Lach., p. 193 c., and in later writings) (Compare: ἐκκολυμβάω.)
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** κολυμβάω , -ῶ ,
[in AI.: Isaiah 25:11 *;]
to dive, plunge into the sea: Acts 27:43 (cf. ἐκ -κολνμβάω ).†
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For this verb which properly means ";dive,"; but is used = ";swim"; in Acts 27:43, Hobart (p. 283) refers to the medical writer Galen, by whom it is used of invalids taking exercise in a swimming-bath (κολυμβήθρα). With ἐκκολυμβάω in Acts 27:42 we may compare Syll 803.20 (iii/B.C.) οὗτος [ἀ ]ποκολυμ [βάσ ]ας εἰς τὰν θ [άλασσ ]αν ἔπειτα δενδρύων (";lurking in the wood";) εἰς τόπον ἀφίκετο ξηρόν. The subst. κολυμβητής is found in Preisigke 3747 (i/B.C.). MGr κολυμπῶ, ";dive,"; ";swim.";
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