χαλάω
chaláō
“to lower (as into a void)”
6 occurrencesNew TestamentUncommon Word
Definition
Strong’s Definition
to lower (as into a void)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
to slacken; to let down, lower, Mk. 2:4; Lk. 5:4, 5; Acts 9:25; 27:17, 30; 1 Cor. 11:33*
Translated in KJV as
let downstrike
Etymology
from the base of G5490 (χάσμα);
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“And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,”