Word Summary
paralegomai: to sail past or coast along
Original Word: παραλέγομαιTransliteration: paralegomai
Phonetic Spelling: (par-al-eg'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sail past or coast along
Meaning: to sail past or coast along
Strong's Concordance
pass, sail by.
From para and the middle voice of lego (in its original sense); (specially), to lay one's course near, i.e. Sail past -- pass, sail by.
see GREEK para
see GREEK lego
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3881: παραλέγομαιπαραλέγομαι; (
παρελεγομην); (
παρά beside, and
λέγω to lay);
Vulg. in
Acts 27:8lego, i. e.
to sail past, coast along:
τήν Κρήτην,
Acts 27:8 (here some, referring
αὐτήν, to
Σαλμώνην, render
work past, weather), 13 (
τήν Ἰταλίαν,
Diodorus 13, 3;
γῆν, 14, 55; (
Strabo); Latin
legereoram).