noun · feminine
nauas
Strong’sG3491
a ship, vessel
stem nau-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ναῦς, νεώς acc. ναῦν, ἡ,
[in LXX for אֳנִי, אֲנִיָּה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3491 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnowce
a boat (of any size)
Fromfrom νάω or νέω (to float);
King Jamesship.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(see. below) ship, Refs 8th c.BC+ (but rare in non-literary Hellenistic Greek, once in NT, NT; ἐν νήεσσι or ἐν νηυσίν at the ships, i.e. in the camp formed by the ships drawn up on shore, Refs 8th c.BC+; νῆες μακραί ships of war, built long and taper for speed, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to νῆες στρογγύλαι round-built merchant-ships, Refs 5th c.BC+; νέες alone, ={τριήρεις}, opposed to πεντηκόντεροι, Refs; νῆες κεναί, i.e. without fighting men in them, Refs 4th c.BC+; ναῦς μακρά collective for μακραί, Refs 4th c.BC+— Attic dialect declension ναῦς, νεώς, νηΐ, ναῦν, dual genitive νεοῖν, plural νῆες, νεῶν (νηῶν is variant in Refs 5th c.BC+; in later writers, nominative plural ναῦς, accusative plural νῆας, Refs 2nd c.BC+:— Epic dialect νηῦς, νηός, νηΐ, νῆα, plural νῆες, νηῶν, νηυσί or νήεσσι, νῆας (but also genitive and accusative singular νεός, νέα [the latter as monosyllable in Refs 8th c.BC+; Epic dialect genitive and dative plural ναῦφι, -φιν, Refs 8th c.BC+; in late Epic dialect, nominative νῆυς uncertain reading in Refs 2nd c.BC+; accusative singular and plural νηῦν, νηῦς, Refs 5th c.BC+:—Ionic dialect νηῦς, νεός, νηΐ, νέα, plural νέες, νεῶν, νηυσί (νηυσίν epigram in Refs 7th c.BC+; νηός is frequently in codices of Refs 5th c.BC+:—Doric dialect ναῦς (νᾶςRefs 5th c.BC+ perhaps to be read in Refs 7th c.BC+ falsa lectio in Refs 7th c.BC+; the Epic dialect forms νηός Refs 5th c.BC+ are probably corrupt. (Cf. Sanskrit naús, Latin nāvis, etc.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nauas | nauais |
| object accusative | nauan1×ναῦν | nauain |
| direct address vocative | nauar | nauair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nauau | nauaiu |
| to, for dative | naua | nauai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
naua is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nauan“ship”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 27:41… de eis topon dithalasson epikellala tan nauan, kai tas men prōras ereidarantas menata …But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground …