UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: κατακλύζω · κατακλυσμός · κλύδων

Sense 1: to be tossed about by waves

Semantic entry: 16.12

Semantic domains: Non-Linear Movement

Definition: to be tossed back and forth by the motion of waves

Notes: The imagery in RV EPH 4:14 · LV EPH 4:14 · Read together EPH 4:14 is based upon a person in a boat being tossed about by the waves. It may, therefore, be necessary to introduce a boat or ship in the context.

EPH 4:14: RV EPH 4:14 · LV EPH 4:14 · Read together EPH 4:14

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OET-RV EPH 4:14

14 Then we’ll no longer be like children in our faith, tossed around by waves and being blown by every wind of teaching used to trick us or by crafty people who scheme how to deceive us.

OET-LV EPH 4:14

14 in _order _that no _longer we _may _be infants, being _tossed _by _waves and being _carried _about by _every wind of_ the _teaching in the trickery of_ the _people, in craftiness with the scheming of_ the _deception,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κλυδωνίζομαι

Form 1

Sense 1: to be tossed about by waves