STRONGS NUMBER G3489


Word Summary
nauageō: to suffer shipwreck
Original Word: ναυαγέω
Transliteration: nauageō
Phonetic Spelling: (now-ag-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to suffer shipwreck
Meaning: to suffer shipwreck
Strong's Concordance
shipwreck.

From a compound of naus and ago; to be shipwrecked (stranded, "navigate"), literally or figuratively -- make (suffer) shipwreck.

see GREEK naus

see GREEK ago

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3489: ναυαγέω

ναυαγέω, ναυάγω: 1 aorist ἐναυαγης; (from ναυαγός shipwrecked; and this from ναῦς, and ἄγνυμι to break); frequent in Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, to suffer shipwreck: properly, 2 Corinthians 11:25; metaphorically, περί τήν πίστιν (as respects (A. V. concerning, see περί, II. b.) the faith), 1 Timothy 1:19.