STRONGS G4079:
πηδάλιον,
πηδαλίου,
τό (from
πηδον the blade of an oar, an oar), from
Homer down, a ship's rudder :.
Acts 27:40 (on the plural see Smith, Voy. and Shipwreck of St. Paul, 4th edition, p. 183ff;
B. D., under the word, Ship (2); cf. Graser, Das Seewesen des Alterthums, in the Philologus for 1865, p. 266f);
James 3:4.
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