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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἀρτέμων

(Strong's #736 — Noun Masculine — artemon — ar-tem'-ohn )

from artao, "to fasten to," is rendered "mainsail" in Acts 27:40 , AV; RV, "foresail." As to the particular kind of sail there mentioned, Sir William Ramsay, quoting from Juvenal concerning the entrance of a disabled ship into harbor by means of a prow-sail, indicates that the artemon would be a sail set on the bow.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Foresail'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​f/foresail.html. 1940.
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