Quick Definition
a foresail, set on the bow
Strong's Definition
properly, something ready (or else more remotely from G142 (αἴρω) (compare G740 (ἄρτος)); something hung up), i.e. (specially) the topsail (rather foresail or jib) of a vessel
Derivation: from a derivative of G737 (ἄρτι);
KJV Usage: mainsail
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀρτέμων, ἀρτεμονος (L T Tr WH ἀρτεμωνος, cf. Winers Grammar, § 9, 1 d.; (Buttmann, 24 (22))), ὁ, top-sail (or foresail?) of a ship: Act_27:40; cf. Meyer at the passage; (especially Smith, Voyage and Shipwr. of St. Paul, p. 192f; Graser in the Philologus, 3rd suppl. 1865, p. 201ff).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀρτέμων artemōn 1x
a topsail, foresail; or, according to others, the dolon of Pliny and Pollux, a small sail near the bow of the ship, which was hoisted when the wind was too strong to use the larger sails, Act_27:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἀρτέμων , -ωνος
( Rec. -ονος ), ὁ
( < ἀρτάω , to fasten to ),
a fore-sail or top-sail: Act_27:40 ( v. DB , ext., 366b, 399a; MM , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀρτέμων [page 80]
What particular sail is to be understood by ἀ . in Act_27:40 is uncertain. Sir W. M. Ramsay (Hastings DB V. p. 399) refers to the case mentioned by Juvenal ( Sat 12 .69 ) where a disabled ship made its way into harbour velo prora suo , which the scholiast explains artemone solo. According to this, the ἀρτέμων would be a sail set on the bow. See also Breusing Die Nautik der Alten , p. 79 f. (cited by Preuschen, ad Act_27:40 in HZNT ).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀρτέμων [Etym: ἀρτάω] prob. "a foresail", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀρτέμων, -ωνος (Rec. -ονος), ὁ
(ἀρτάω, to fasten to),
a fore-sail or top-sail: Act.27:40 (see DB, ext., 366b, 399a; MM, see word).†
(AS)