Lexical Summary artemōn: something hung up or fastened, a foresail Original Word: ἀρτέμωνTransliteration: artemōn Phonetic Spelling: (ar-tem'-ohn) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: something hung up or fastened, a foresail Meaning: something hung up or fastened, a foresail Strong's Concordance mainsail. From a derivative of arti; properly, something ready (or else more remotely from airo (compare artos); something hung up), i.e. (specially) the topsail (rather foresail or jib) of a vessel -- mainsail. see GREEK arti see GREEK airo see GREEK artos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 736: ἀρτέμωνἀρτέμων, ἀρτεμονος (L T Tr WH ἀρτεμωνος, cf. Winers Grammar, § 9, 1 d.; (Buttmann, 24 (22))), ὁ, top-sail (or foresail?) of a ship: Acts 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). |