Word Summary
skeuē: equipment
Original Word: σκευήTransliteration: skeuē
Phonetic Spelling: (skyoo-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: equipment
Meaning: equipment
Strong's Concordance
tackle, equipment
From skeuos; furniture, i.e. Spare tackle -- tackling.
see GREEK skeuos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4631: σκεύησκεύη,
σκευης,
ἡ (cf.
σκεῦος), from (
Pindar,
Sophocles),
Herodotus down,
any apparatus, equipment, or furniture; used of the utensils (outfit, i. e. furniture (? — so
R. V. marginal reading), or tackling (? — so
A. V.,
R. V. text)) of a ship (
Diodorus 14, 79):
Acts 27:19 (the
Sept. Jonah 1:5).