noun · masculine
nautos
Strong’sG3492
a sailor
stem naut-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
** ναύτης, -ου, ὁ
(< ναῦς), [in Aq.: Ez 27:9; Sm.: Ez 27:29*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3492 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnow'-tace
a boatman, i.e. seaman
Fromfrom G3491;
King Jamessailor, shipman.
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
(ναῦς) seaman, sailor, Refs 8th c.BC+: as adjective, ν. ὅμιλος Refs 5th c.BC+; by sea, opposed to πεζός (by land), Refs 4th c.BC+
II passenger by sea, ναύτην ἄγειν τινά Refs 5th c.BC+ mates in the drinking bout, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | nautos | nautois2×ναῦται |
| object accusative | nauton | nautoin |
| direct address vocative | nautor | nautoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | nautou | nautoiu1×ναυτῶν |
| to, for dative | nauto | nautoi |
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
nauto 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
nautois“sailors”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 27:27… kata mesem tau nuktau huponoale tois nautois prosagarō tinan autoi chōran.… the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
Revelation 18:17“sailors”… pantos tos epi topon plarōntos, kai nautois kai hosois tan thalassan ergazolō, apo …… sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand …
nautoiu“sailors”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 27:30toiu de nautoiu zētarōntoiu fugara ek teu ploieu kai …Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship …