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In Our small Wednesday bible study, (Acts 27 16-30) This is where they are in trouble with the storm, and they were bringing in the ship's boat with difficulty.
Now the Pastor brought up that this, ship's boat was not a lifeboat per se but a cargo transport boat, because of the draft of the ship, it could not get into alot of ports. So they used this cargo boat to off load the ships cargo to shore. Now i always thought of this boat as a lifeboat utility type boat. Louw defines it as (6.45 σκάφη, ης f: a small boat which was normally kept aboard a larger ship and used by sailors in placing anchors, repairing the ship, or saving lives in the case of storms—‘small boat, skiff.’ ἰσχύσαμεν μόλις περικρατεῖς γενέσθαι τῆς σκάφης ‘with some difficulty we were able to make the ship’s boat secure’ Ac 27:16. In some languages σκάφη is equivalent to ‘rowboat’ or ‘lifeboat.’
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Vol. 1: Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: Based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition.) (58). New York: United Bible Societies.)
Which is right? small lifeboat type or cargo transport type boat?
thanks much
In Our small Wednesday bible study, (Acts 27 16-30) This is where they are in trouble with the storm, and they were bringing in the ship's boat with difficulty.
Now the Pastor brought up that this, ship's boat was not a lifeboat per se but a cargo transport boat, because of the draft of the ship, it could not get into alot of ports. So they used this cargo boat to off load the ships cargo to shore. Now i always thought of this boat as a lifeboat utility type boat. Louw defines it as (6.45 σκάφη, ης f: a small boat which was normally kept aboard a larger ship and used by sailors in placing anchors, repairing the ship, or saving lives in the case of storms—‘small boat, skiff.’ ἰσχύσαμεν μόλις περικρατεῖς γενέσθαι τῆς σκάφης ‘with some difficulty we were able to make the ship’s boat secure’ Ac 27:16. In some languages σκάφη is equivalent to ‘rowboat’ or ‘lifeboat.’
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Vol. 1: Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: Based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition.) (58). New York: United Bible Societies.)
Which is right? small lifeboat type or cargo transport type boat?
thanks much