UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἔχω

Sense 1: to move toward, to approach, to come near to

Semantic entry: 15.77

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Come Near, Approach

Definition: to move toward a reference point, with a possible implication in certain contexts of a reciprocal relationship between the person approaching and the one who is approached

Notes: This word is found as a variant reading only: ὑπενόουν οἱ ναῦται προσανέχειν τινὰ αὐτοῖς χώραν ‘the sailors sensed that they were approaching some land’ RV ACT 27:27 · LV ACT 27:27 · Read together ACT 27:27 (apparatus).

ACT 27:27: RV ACT 27:27 · LV ACT 27:27 · Read together ACT 27:27

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OET-RV ACT 27:27

27 So it happened that in the middle of our fourteenth night of being blown across the Adrias Sea, the sailors suspected that we were nearing land.

OET-LV ACT 27:27

27 But when the_fourteenth night became, us being _carried _through in the Adrias _Sea, to the_middle of _the night, the sailors were _suspecting a_certain to _be _coming _near to _them land.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

προσανέχω

Form 1

Sense 1: to move toward, to approach, to come near to