Quick Definition
a boat
Strong's Definition
a "skiff" (as if dug out), or yawl (carried aboard a large vessel for landing)
KJV Usage: boat
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σκάφη, σκάφης, ἡ (σκάπτω (which see)), from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down, anything dug out, hollow vessel, trough, tray, tub; specifically, a boat: Act_27:16; Act_27:30; Act_27:32.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σκάφη skaphē 3x
pr. anything excavated or hollowed; a boat, skiff, Act_27:16 ; Act_27:30 ; Act_27:32
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** σκάφη , -ης , ἡ
( < σκάπτω ),
[in LXX : Da LXX Bel 1:32, TH Bel 1:33 * ;]
anything scooped out, esp . a light boat, skiff: Act_27:16 ; Act_27:30 ; Act_27:32 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σκάφη [page 576]
a small boat ( Act_27:16 ; Act_27:30 ; Act_27:32 ) : cf. p Cairo Zen I. 59025 .5 (B.C. 28 or 29) σκάφης τρισκάλμου , a boat with three sculls, BGU IV. 1157 .13 (B.C. 10) τρίτου μέρους τῆς δηλουμένης σκάφης , and P Lond 256 ( a ) .1 (A.D. 11 15) (= II. p. 99) κυβερνήτης σκάφης δ̣ημοσίας , pilot of a public vessel. For the dim. σκαφίδιον see P Oxy VII. 1068 .7 (iii/A.D.) διαπέμψετό μοι σκαφίδιον ἀρταβῶν ἑξήκοντα , he sent me a skiff of sixty artabae burden, as contrasted with πλοῖον , previously mentioned.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σκάφη σκά^φη, ἡ, [Etym: σκάπτω] "anything dug or scooped out", "a trough or tub, basin or bowl", Hdt. "a light boat, skiff", Ar. proverb., τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγειν ""to call a spade a spade, "" to call things by their right names, Luc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σκάφη, -ης, ἡ
(σκάπτω), [in LXX: Dan LXX Bel 1:32, TH Bel 1:33 * ;]
anything scooped out, esp. a light boat, skiff: Act.27:16, 30 27:32.†
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