Strong's Greek #1001 - βολίζω bolizó (to heave the lead)

to take soundings

From bolis; to heave the lead -- sound.

see GREEK bolis

Strong's 1001: βολίζω

βολίζω: 1 aorist ἐβολισα; (βολίς a missile, dart; a line and plummet with which mariners sound the depth of the sea, a sounding-lead); to heave the lead, take soundings: Acts 27:28. (Besides only in Eustathius; (middle intransitive, to sink in water, Geoponica, 6, 17).)

Strong's Greek: 1001. βολίζω (bolizó) — 2 Occurrences

Acts 27:28 - V-APA-NMP
GRK: καὶ βολίσαντες εὗρον ὀργυιὰς
NAS: They took soundings and found
KJV: And sounded, and found [it] twenty
INT: and having sounded they found fathoms

Acts 27:28 - V-APA-NMP
GRK: καὶ πάλιν βολίσαντες εὗρον ὀργυιὰς
NAS: They took soundings and found
KJV: a little further, they sounded again,
INT: and again having sounded they found fathoms