Word Summary
elaunō: to drive or push (as wind, oars, or demoniacal power)
Original Word: ἐλαύνωTransliteration: elaunō
Phonetic Spelling: (el-ow'-no)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to drive or push (as wind, oars, or demoniacal power)
Meaning: to drive or push (as wind, oars, or demoniacal power)
Strong's Concordance
carry, drive, row.
A prolonged form of a primary verb (obsolete except in certain tenses as an alternative of this) of uncertain affinity; to push (as wind, oars or d?Monical power) -- carry, drive, row.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1643: ἐλαύνωἐλαύνω; perfect participle
ἐληλακως; passive (present
ἐλαύνομαι); imperfect
ἠλαυνομην;
to drive: of the wind driving ships or clouds,
James 3:4;
2 Peter 2:17; of sailors propelling a vessel by oars,
to row, Mark 6:48; to be carried in a ship, to sail,
John 6:19 (often so in Greek writings from
Homer down; often also with
νῆα or
ναῦν added); of demons driving to some place the men whom they possess,
Luke 8:29. (Compare:
ἀπελαύνω,
συνελαύνω.)
STRONGS NT 1643: ἐλάωἐλάω, see ἐλαύνω.