STRONGS G5269:
ὑποζώννυμι; from
Herodotus down;
to under-gird:
τό πλοῖον to bind a ship together laterally with
ὑποζωματα (
Plato, de rep. 10, p. 616 c.), i. e. with girths or cables, to enable it to survive the force of waves and tempest,
Acts 27:17 (where see Overbeck (or Hackett; especially Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck, etc., pp. 107ff, 204ff. (cf.
βοήθεια))). (
Polybius 27, 3, 3.)
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