skafas

Strong’sG4627

a boat

stem skaf-3 times in the New Testament2 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.

** σκάφη, -ης, ἡ

(< σκάπτω), [in LXX: Da LXX Bel 32, TH ib. 33 *;]

anything scooped out, esp. a light boat, skiff: Ac 27:16, 30, 32.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4627 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidskaf'-ay

a "skiff" (as if dug out), or yawl (carried aboard a large vessel for landing)

King Jamesboat.

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

σκᾰφ-η, ἡ:

I trough, tub, basin, or bowl Refs 8th c.BC+; kneading-trough or baker's tray, Refs 4th c.BC+; wash-tub, bath, Refs 5th c.BC+; bowl or tray on which offerings were carried by metoeci at the Panathenaea, etc., Refs; compare σκαφηφόρος: proverbial, τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγει Refs 1st c.AD+
I.2 light boat, skiff, Refs 5th c.BC+ (with a pun on signification Refs 3rd c.BC+; used for cargo, Refs 1st c.BC+; boat-load, ξύλων Refs 3rd c.BC+
I.3 child's cradle, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.4 grave, Refs
II concave sun-dial, Refs 1st c.BC+. (Prob. originally something dug or scooped out, from σκάπτω.)

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.

boat3×

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	skafas	skafais
object accusative	skafan1×σκάφην	skafain
direct address vocative	skafar	skafair
of, belonging to genitive	skafau2×σκάφης	skafaiu
to, for dative	skafa	skafai

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

skafstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

skafa 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

skafan“boat”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 27:30“boat”… ek teu ploieu kai chalarantoiu tan skafan eis tan thalassan profasia hōs ek …… to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.

skafau“boat”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Acts 27:16“boat”… Kaudem ischuana molis perikratois genera tau skafau,… island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.

Acts 27:32“boat”… apokoptala tois stratiōtois teim schoinieim tau skafau kai easala autan ekpiptara.So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.