STRONGS G670:
													
												
									    		ἀποφορτίζομαι; (
φορτίζω to load; 
φόρτος a load), 
to disburden oneself; 
τί, 
to lay down a load, unlade, discharge: 
τὸν γόμον, of a ship, 
Acts 21:3; cf. Meyer and DeWette at the passage; Winers Grammar, 349f (328f).
(Elsewhere also used of sailors lightening ship during a storm in order to avoid shipwreck: Philo de praem. et poen. § 5 
κυβερνήτης, 
χειμώνων ἐπιγινομένων, 
ἀποφορτίζεται; 
Athen. 2, 5, p. 37 and following, where it occurs twice.) 
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