Quick Definition
a throwing out, a jettisoning
Strong's Definition
ejection, i.e. (specially) a throwing overboard of the cargo
Derivation: from G1544 (ἐκβάλλω);
KJV Usage: + lighten the ship
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐκβολή, ἐκβολης, ἡ (ἐκβάλλω);
a. a casting out.
b. specifically, the throwing overboard of goods and lading whereby sailors lighten a ship in a storm to keep her from sinking (Aeschylus sept. 769; Aristotle, eth. Nic. 3, 1, 5 (p. 1110{a} , 9); Lucian, de merc. cond. 1): ποιεῖσθαι ἐκβολήν, Latinjacturam facere, to throw the cargo overboard, Act_27:18; with τῶν σκευῶν added, the Sept. Jon_1:5; τῶν φορτιων, Pollux 1, 99, p. 70, Hemsterh edition.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκβολή ekbolē 1x
a casting out; especially, a throwing overboard of a cargo, Act_27:18
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐκ -βολή , -ῆς
( < ἐκβάλλω ),
[in LXX : Exo_11:1 ( H1644 ), Jos_1:5 (ἐκβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι , θεμ hi .), Eze_47:8 ( H3318 ) * ;]
1. a throwing out.
2. a jettison, a throwing overboard of cargo: Act_27:18 ( cf. Jos, l.c .; and v. Field, Notes , 144 f .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκβολή [page 191]
With the use of ἐκβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι = jettison in Act_27:18 , cf. the directions on the back of a mummy-ticket, Preisigke 2052, ἐκβολὴν ποιῆσαι ἰς ὅρμον κώμης Ἔμμαυ : so ib. 1207. In P Hib I. 110 recto .9 ( c. B.C. 270) the word is found in a very broken context, and in BGU IV. 1116 .13 (B.C. 13) we have ἐ̣π̣ι̣βολῆς καὶ ἐγβολῆς . See also CP Herm I. 127 ii. 11 (p 79), and for medical usage cf. Hobart, p. 143.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐκβολή ἐκβολή, ἡ, [Etym: ἐκβάλλω] "a throwing out", ψήφων ἐκβ. "turning" the votes "out of" the urn, Aesch. "a throwing the cargo overboard", id=Aesch. "ejectment, banishment", id=Aesch. , Plat. "a letting fall", δακρύων Eur. "a bringing forth:—" ἐκβ. σίτου "the time when" the corn "comes into ear", Thuc. (from intr. signf. of ἐκβάλλω) "a going out, outlet", Lat. exitus, ἐκβ. ποταμοῦ "the discharge" of a river from between mountains, Hdt. : "a mountain-pass", id=Hdt. : "the mouth" of a river, Thuc. ἐκβ. λόγου "a digression", id=Thuc. (from Pass.), "that which is cast out", ἐκβ. δικέλλης "earth cast or scraped up" by a hoe or mattock, Soph. ; οὐρεία ἐκβολή "children exposed" on the mountains, Eur. "a cargo cast overboard", ἐκβολαὶ νεώς "wrecked" seamen, id=Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-βολή, -ῆς
(ἐκβάλλω), [in LXX: Exo.11:1 (גָּרַשׁ), Jos.1:5 (ἐκβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι, טול hi.), Eze.47:8 (יָצָא)* ;]
__1. a throwing out.
__2. a jettison, a throwing overboard of cargo: Act.27:18 (cf. Jos, l.with; and see Field, Notes, 144 f.).†
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