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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - ἐλαύνω
ἐλαύνω
G1643
Transliteration: elaúnō
Pronunciation: el-ow'-no
Definition: carry
- Original: ἐλαύνω - Transliteration: Elauno - Phonetic: el-ow'-no
- Definition:
1. to drive
a. of the wind driving ships or clouds
b. of sailors propelling a vessel by oars, to row
c. to be carried in a ship, to sail
d. of demons driving to some place the men whom they possess
- Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb (obsolete except in certain tenses as an altern. of this) of uncertain affin - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A prolonged form of a primary verb (obsolete except in certain tenses as an alternate of this) of uncertain affinity; to push (as wind oars or daemoniacal power): - carry drive row.