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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

* Note: This forms part of the RV rendering of two verbs, (1) hupopleo, "to sail under" (i.e., under the lee of), from hupo, "under," pleo, "to sail," Acts 27:4,7 (AV, "sailed under"); (2) hupotrecho, "to run in under" (in navigation), "to run under the lee of" (hupo, and a form hupodramon, used as an aorist participle of the verb), Acts 27:16 , RV, "running under the lee of" (AV, "running under"). See RUN , SAIL.