Southwest

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: Λίψ (Strong'S #3047 — Noun Masculine — lips — leeps )

lit., "Libyan," denotes "the S.W. wind,"  Acts 27:12 , "(looking) northeast (and southeast)," RV, lit., "(looking down) the southwest wind (and down the northwest wind);" to look down a wind was to look in the direction in which it blows. A S.W. wind blows towards the N.E.; the aspect of the haven answers to this. See also under Northeast, Northwest

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): ( n.) The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.

(2): ( a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.

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