What does βολίζω (bolízō) mean in the Bible?
βολίζω (bolízō): Nautical term: to measure water depth with weighted line; used literally in maritime narrative
Greek · G1001
βολίζω
To heave the lead
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βολίζω G1001
Pronunciation bolízō
What does βολίζω (bolízō) mean in the Bible?
βολίζω (bolízō): Nautical term: to measure water depth with weighted line; used literally in maritime narrative
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G1001?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include they took another set of soundings (1), They took soundings (1).
Where does βολίζω (bolízō) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 27:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It they took another set of soundings 1× Acts 27:28
They took soundings 1× Acts 27:28
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Usage map
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First aligned row Acts 27:28
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 1
Acts 2
Source forms
βολίσαντες 2x bolisantes Acts 27:28
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Acts 27:28
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Nautical term: to measure water depth with weighted line; used literally in maritime narrative
Strong's G1001
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 1 form 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
to heave the lead
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Nautical term: to measure water depth with weighted line; used literally in maritime narrative
(βολίς, in sense of sounding-lead), to heave the lead, take soundings: Act.27:28.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 27:28 Verb Aorist Active Participle Nominative Plural Masculine
βολίσαντες bolisantev
I cast the line for sounding, I sound
Read verse Acts 27:28 Verb Aorist Active Participle Nominative Plural Masculine
βολίσαντες, bolisantev
I cast the line for sounding, I sound
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 1 Aligned forms 2 Tenses Aorist Voices Active
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Tenses
Voices
Participle verbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality 2×
Aorist Active Acts 27:28 2×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist 2
Voice
active 2
Mood
participle 2
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Word Origins
βολίζω is built from this root:
βολίς G1002
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain