Strong's G2202: ζευκτηρία (zeuktēría) Meaning

Quick Definition

ζευκτηρία, ας, ἡ n.f. a band, fastening

Strong's Definition

a fastening (tiller-rope)

Derivation: feminine of a derivative (at the second stage) from the same as G2218 (ζυγός);

KJV Usage: band

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ζευκτηρία (G2202)

noun, f. | -ας | ζυγός

6.19 · Artifacts · Instruments Used in Binding and Fastening

bands an instrument for joining together objects (normally two) In ACT 27:40 ζευκτηρία refers to ropes employed in linking two rudders of a boat. In most languages, however, one would simply use a term for ‘rope.’

ACT 27:40

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ζευκτηρία, -as, ἡ, (fr. the adj. ζευκτήριος, fit for joining or binding together), a band, fastening: Acts xxvii. 40. Found nowhere else.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ζευκτηρία zeuktēria 1x

a fastening, band, Acts 27:40*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

*† ζευκτήριος, -α -ον

(< ζεύγνυμι),

fit for joining. As subst.,

ζευκτήριον, τό = ζυγόν, a yoke;

ζευκτηρία, -ας, ἡ = ζεύγλη, the crossbar of a double rudder: Ac 27:40 (found nowhere else).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ζευκτηρία [page 272] ζευκτηρία , which occurs in Act_27:40 and according to Grimm is found nowhere else, may now be illustrated from the neut. plur. of the adj. in P Oxy VI. 934 .5 (iii/A.D.) εἰς τιμὴν ζευκτηρίων δραχμὰς ἑξήκοντα , as the price of yokes 60 drachmae : cf. PSI IV. 286 .20 (iii/iv A.D.), CP Herm I. 95 .18 . In P Lond 1177 .167 (A.D. 113) (= III. p. 185) σχοινίων καὶ ζευκτηρίων , and in P Flor I. 16 .26 (A.D. 239) τοῦ τε φο̣ρέτρου̣ [κ ]αὶ μηχανῆς καὶ ζευκτηρίω̣(ν ) the word is used in connexion with the mechanism of a water-wheel.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ζευκτηρία (zeuktēria) — rope. Related to: ζεύγλ-η, ἡ, loop attached to the yoke (ζυγόν), through which the beasts' heads were put, χαίτη ζεύγλης ἐξεριποῦσα παρὰ ζυγόν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑποδύντες ὑπὸ τὴν ζ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπάγειν τοὺς ἵππους τῇ ζ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

2. ={ζεῦγος}[Refs 3rd c.BC+] —Not found in good _Attic dialect_ Prose.

II. cross-bar of the double rudder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ζευκτήριος, -α -ον (ζεύγνυμι), fit for joining. As subst., __(a) ζευκτήριον, τό = ζυγόν, a yoke; __(b) ζευκτηρία, -ας, ἡ = ζεύγλη, the crossbar of a double rudder: Act.27:40 (found nowhere else).† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

27:40

G2202 ζευκτηρία (zeuktēría)