G3047

λίψ

lips

Masculine noun · Probably from leibo (to pour a "libation")

Probably from λείβω leíbō (to pour a "libation"); the south(- west) wind (as bringing rain, i.e. (by extension) the south quarter):—southwest.

Outline

the south west wind
the quarter of the heavens whence the south west wind blows

Usages

Acts 27:12

And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.

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