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Euraquilo
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or EURAQUILO ( Acts 27:14 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ). There is some doubt as to the reading. The Greek MSS which are esteemed to be the best read Euraklyon; so do the Bohairic Version, which was made in Egypt in the 6th or 7th cent. from a MS very like these, and the Sahidic Version made in the 3rd cent.; the Vulgate Latin revision, made towards the close of the 4th cent., reads Euroaquilo , which points to a Greek original reading Euroakylon . Our later authorities, along with the Pesh. and Hark. Syriac, read Euroclydon (so AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ). No doubt Eur(o). akylon is the correct name, and the other is an attempt to get a form capable of derivation. The word is, then, a sailor’s word, and expresses an E.N.E. wind, by compounding two words, a Greek word ( euros ) meaning E. wind, and a Latin word ( aquilo ) meaning N.E. wind. This is exactly the kind of wind which frequently arises in Cretan waters at the present day, swooping down from the mountains in strong gusts and squalls. The euraquilo which drove St. Paul’s ship before it was the cause of the shipwreck.
A. Souter.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Euraquilo'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/e/euraquilo.html. 1909.
