Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G736
properly, something ready (or else more remotely from (compare ); something hung up), i.e. (specially) the topsail (rather foresail or jib) of a vessel
KJV usage: :--mainsail.
Etymology: from a derivative of ;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
a topsail, foresail; or, according to others, the dolon of Pliny and Pollux, a small sail near the bow of the ship, which was hoisted when the wind was too strong to use the larger sails, Acts 27:40*
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