Boat

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Πλοιάριον (Strong'S #4142 — Noun Neuter — ploiarion — ploy-ar'-ee-on )

"a skiff or small boat," is a diminutive of ploion (No. 2),  Mark 3:9;  4:36;  John 6:22 (but No. 2 in the 2nd part of the verse),   John 6:23 (here some texts have No. 2),   John 6:24;  21:8 .

2: Πλοῖον (Strong'S #4143 — Noun Neuter — ploion — ploy'-on )

AV, "ship," is preferably translated "boat" (RV) in the Gospels, where it is of frequent use; it is found 18 times in Acts, where, as in  James 3:4;  Revelation 8:9;  18:19 , it signifies a ship. See Ship.

3: Σκάφη (Strong'S #4627 — Noun Feminine — skaphe — skaf'-ay )

is, lit., "anything dug or scooped out" (from skapto, "to dig"), "as a trough, a tub, and hence a light boat, or skiff, a boat belonging to a larger vessel,"  Acts 27:16,30,32 .

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

(2): (v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

(3): (v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

(4): (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

(5): (n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

(6): (v. i.) To go or row in a boat.

King James Dictionary

BOAT, n.

1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat,lanch, barge, pinnace,jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat,perogue, &c. 2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat. &c.

BOAT, To transport in a boat as, to boat goods across a lake.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Sailors and NavigationShips

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BOAT . See Ships and Boats.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

See Ship.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

See SHIP.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(usually Πλοιάριον , a small ship, (See Ship); the word does not occur in the Old Test. except in the translation "ferry-boat", (See Ferry) ). In the narrative of the shipwreck of Paul, recorded in the 17th chapter of the Acts, it is stated  Acts 17:17, "We had much work to come by the boat" ( Σκάφη , a Skiff). Every ship had a boat, as at present, but it was not taken up at the commencement of the voyage and secured on the deck, but left on the water, attached to the stern by a rope; the difference may be thus accounted for: The modern navigator bids adieu to land, and has no further need for his boat; but the ancient mariner, in creeping along the coast, maintained frequent intercourse with the land, for which the boat was always kept ready. When, however, a storm arose, and danger was apprehended, and that the boat might be dashed to pieces against the sides of the ship, it was drawn close up under the stern. In the above passage we are to understand that this was done, and that there was much difficulty in thus securing the boat. (See Shipwreck).