G670
G670 — ἀποφορτίζομαι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
apophortizomai (ap-of-or-tid'-zom-ai) v.
1. to unload
[from G575 and the middle voice of G5412]
KJV: unlade
Root(s): G575, G5412
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
unlade
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀποφορτίζομαι; (φορτίζω to load; φόρτος a load), to disburden oneself; τί, to lay down a load, unlade, discharge: τόν γόμον, of a ship, Act 21:3; cf. Meyer and DeWette at the passage; Winers Grammar, 349f (328f). (Elsewhere also used of sailors lightening ship during a storm in order to avoid shipwreck: Philo de praem. et poen. § 5 κυβερνήτης, χειμωνων ἀπιγινομενων, ἀποφορτίζεται; Athen. 2, 5, p. 37 c. and following, where it occurs twice.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἀποφορτίζομαι (unlade)
Acts 21:3
- KJV: Now when we had discovered Cyprus we left it on the left hand and sailed into Syria and landed at Tyre for there the ship was to unlade her burden
- GK: αναφανέντες δε την Κύπρον και καταλιπόντες αυτήν ευώνυμον επλέομεν εις Συρίαν και κατήχθημεν εις Τύρον εκείσε γαρ ην το πλοίον αποφορτιζόμενον τον γόμον