akin to pleo, "to sail," a boat or a ship, always rendered appropriately "boat" in the RV in the Gospels; "ship" in the Acts; elsewhere, Jam 3:4, Rev 8:9, Rev 18:17 (in some mss.), Rev 18:19. See BOAT, No. 2.
<2,,4142, ploiarion>
a diminutive form of No. 1, is translated "ship" in the AV of Mar 3:9, Mar 4:36, Joh 21:8; "(took) shipping" in Joh 6:24, AV, RV "(got into the) boats." See BOAT, No. 1.
<3,,3491, naus>
denotes "a ship" (Lat. navis, Eng. "nautical," "naval," etc.), Act 27:41. Naus, in classical Greek the ordinary word for a "ship," survived in Hellenistic Greek only as a literary word, but disappeared from popular speech (Moulton, Proleg., p. 25). Blass (Philology of the Gospels, p. 186) thinks the solitary Lucan use of naus was due to a reminiscence of the Homeric phrase for beaching a "ship."
Note: For epibaino, Act 21:6, "we took ship," see TAKE, Note (16).
