STRONGS G670:
ἀποφορτίζομαι; (
φορτίζω to load;
φόρτος a load),
to disburden oneself;
τί,
to lay down a load, unlade, discharge:
τὸν γόμον, of a ship,
Acts 21:3; cf. Meyer and DeWette at the passage; Winers Grammar, 349f (328f).
(Elsewhere also used of sailors lightening ship during a storm in order to avoid shipwreck: Philo de praem. et poen. § 5
κυβερνήτης,
χειμώνων ἐπιγινομένων,
ἀποφορτίζεται;
Athen. 2, 5, p. 37 and following, where it occurs twice.)
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