Shipwreck
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Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.

2. (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.

3. (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.

4. (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.

5. (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.

Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia

VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF PAUL

voi'-aj, ship'-rek.

See PAUL, THE APOSTLE; PHOENIX; and "Literature" to SHIPS AND BOATS.

PAUL, VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF

See PAUL, THE APOSTLE, V, 9; PHOENIX.

Multi-Version Concordance

Shipwreck (3 Occurrences)

2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Timothy 1:19 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 27:27 Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall. (See NIV)




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