ἀποπλέω
apopleō · sail away
Greek word · Strong’s number G636 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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apopleō (ἀποπλέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sail away”.
Set sail.
How to say it
a·po·ple·ō
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To leave a port by ship.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- they sailed ×2
- should sail ×1
- we sailed ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 13:4
So they, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
- Acts 14:26
And from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work that they had completed.
- Acts 20:15
And from there we sailed and on the following day arrived opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day after we came to Miletus.
- Acts 27:1
And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort.