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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78267" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78267" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Ἀνάγω''''' ''' (Strong'S #321 — Verb — anago — an-ag'-o ) </div> <p> "to bring up" (ana, "up," ago, "to lead"), is used in the Middle Voice as a nautical term signifying "to put to sea;" it is translated "launch forth" in Luke 8:22; "set sail" in Acts 13:13 , RV (AV, "loosed"); similarly in Acts 16:11; in Acts 18:21 , for AV, "sailed;" similarly in Acts 20:3,13; in Acts 21:1 , RV, "set sail," (AV, "launched"), and in Acts 21:2 , for AV, "set forth;" in Acts 27:2,4 the RV has the verb "to put to sea," for AV "to launch;" in Acts 27:12 for AV, "depart;" in Acts 27:21 , RV, "set sail" (AV, "loosed"); in Acts 28:10,11 , "sailed" and "set sail" (AV, "departed"). See [[Bring]] , [[Depart]] , [[Lead]] , [[Loose]] , [[Offer]] , [[Put]] , [[Sail]] , Set. </p> <div> '''2: '''''Ἐπανάγω''''' ''' (Strong'S #1877 — Verb — epanago — ep-an-ag'-o ) </div> <p> "to lead up upon" (epi, "upon," and No. 1), is used as a nautical term with ploion, "a ship," understood, denoting "to put out to sea," translated in Luke 5:3 , "put out," RV (AV, "thrust out"); in Luke 5:4 , for AV, "launch." For the non-nautical significance "to return," see Matthew 21:18 . See Put , [[Return]] , Thrust. In the Sept., Zechariah 4:12 , "that communicate with (the golden oil vessels)." </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_137560" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_137560" /> == | ||
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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61264" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61264" /> == | ||
<p> [[Launch | <p> [[Launch]] See Lanch, the more correct orthography. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:53, 14 October 2021
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to bring up" (ana, "up," ago, "to lead"), is used in the Middle Voice as a nautical term signifying "to put to sea;" it is translated "launch forth" in Luke 8:22; "set sail" in Acts 13:13 , RV (AV, "loosed"); similarly in Acts 16:11; in Acts 18:21 , for AV, "sailed;" similarly in Acts 20:3,13; in Acts 21:1 , RV, "set sail," (AV, "launched"), and in Acts 21:2 , for AV, "set forth;" in Acts 27:2,4 the RV has the verb "to put to sea," for AV "to launch;" in Acts 27:12 for AV, "depart;" in Acts 27:21 , RV, "set sail" (AV, "loosed"); in Acts 28:10,11 , "sailed" and "set sail" (AV, "departed"). See Bring , Depart , Lead , Loose , Offer , Put , Sail , Set.
"to lead up upon" (epi, "upon," and No. 1), is used as a nautical term with ploion, "a ship," understood, denoting "to put out to sea," translated in Luke 5:3 , "put out," RV (AV, "thrust out"); in Luke 5:4 , for AV, "launch." For the non-nautical significance "to return," see Matthew 21:18 . See Put , Return , Thrust. In the Sept., Zechariah 4:12 , "that communicate with (the golden oil vessels)."
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
(2): ( n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.
(3): ( n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
(4): ( n.) The act of launching.
(5): ( v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; - often with out.
(6): ( v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
(7): ( v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
(8): ( v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
King James Dictionary [3]
Launch See Lanch, the more correct orthography.
