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Strong's #670 - ἀποφορτίζομαι
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- to lay down a load, unlade, discharge
- of sailors lightening ship during a storm to avoid shipwreck
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ἀποφορτ-ίζομαι,
Med., discharge one's cargo, τὸν γόμον Acts 21:3; jettison, abs., Ph. 2.413; τῇ θαλάσσῃ τὰ περιττὰ τῶν φορτίων Timae. 61; unload one's stomach, Artem. 2.26: — Pass., of περιττώματα, Sor. 1.40: generally, jettison, get rid of, τι Ph. 2.434, etc.
ἀποφορτίζομαι; (φορτίζω to load; φόρτος a load), to disburden oneself; τί, to lay down a load, unlade, discharge: τόν γόμον, of a ship, Acts 21:3; cf. Meyer and DeWette at the passage; Winers Grammar, 349f (328f). (Elsewhere also used of sailors lightening ship during a storm in order to avoid shipwreck: Philo de praem. et poen. § 5 κυβερνήτης, χειμωνων ἀπιγινομενων, ἀποφορτίζεται; Athen. 2, 5, p. 37 c. and following, where it occurs twice.)
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*† ἀπο -φορτίζομαι
(< φορτίζω , to load),
to discharge a cargo (Field, Notes, 134), to unlade: c. acc, τ . γόμον , Acts 21:3.†
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