Tackling

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Σκευή (Strong'S #4631 — Noun Feminine — skeue — skyoo-ay' )

denotes "gear, equipment, tackling" (of a ship),  Acts 27:19 .

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.

(2): ( n.) Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling.

(3): ( n.) The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.

(4): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tackle

King James Dictionary

TACK'LING, ppr. Harnessing putting on harness seizing falling on.

TACK'LING, n. Furniture of the masts and yards of a ship, as cordage, sails, &c.

1. Instruments of action as fishing tackling. 2. Harness the instruments of drawing a carriage.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Tackling in   Isaiah 33:23 means simply a ship’s ropes; in   Acts 27:19 it is used more generally of the whole gearing (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘furniture’).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 33:23 Acts 27:19

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 33:23 Acts 27:19

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the A. V. — of Σκευή , which occurs only in  Acts 27:19, meaning the spars, ropes, chains, etc., of a vessel's furniture (as in Diod. Sic. 14:79; so of household movables, Polyb. 2, 6, 6; equipage, Xenoph. Anab. 4:7, 27; Herodian, 6:4,11; warlike apparatus, Diod. Sic. 11:71). (See Ship).