Quick Definition
I coast along, sail along
Strong's Definition
(specially), to lay one's course near, i.e. sail past
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and the middle voice of G3004 (λέγω) (in its original sense);
KJV Usage: pass, sail by
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραλέγομαι; (παρελεγομην); (παρά beside, and λέγω to lay); Vulg. in Act_27:8 lego, i. e. to sail past, coast along: τήν Κρήτην, Act_27:8 (here some, referring αὐτήν, to Σαλμώνην, render work past, weather), 13 (τήν Ἰταλίαν, Diodorus 13, 3; γῆν, 14, 55; (Strabo); Latinlegereoram).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραλέγομαι para legomai 2x
to gather a course along; to sail by, coast along, Act_27:8 ; Act_27:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* παρα -λέγω ,
to lay beside; mid .,
(a) to lie beside ( Hom .);
(b) later, of sailors, to sail past: c . acc , Act_27:8 ; Act_27:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραλέγομαι [page 487]
For the meaning coast along in Act_27:8 , Field ( Notes , p. 143 f.) cites Diod. Sic. xiii. 3 κἀκεῖθεν ἤδη παρελέγοντο τὴν Ἰταλίαν , xiv. 55 αἱ δὲ τριήρεις ἔπλευσαν εἰς τὴν Λιβύην , παρελέγοντο δὲ τὴν γῆν . In BGU II. 665 ii. 14 (i/A.D.) ἐνε̣τ̣είλατο γὰρ θέων πα̣ρ̣α̣[λ ]έγων , the verb seems to refer to casual, incidental speech.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρα-λέγω
to lay beside; mid.,
__(a) to lie beside (Hom.);
__(b) later, of sailors, to sail past: with accusative, Act.27:8, 13.†
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