Strong's Greek #3712 - ὀργυιά, ᾶς, ἡ orguia (a fathom (the length of the outstretched arms))

a fathom.

From oregomai; a stretch of the arms, i.e. A fathom -- fathom.

see GREEK oregomai

Strong's 3712: ὀργυιά

ὀργυιά, ὀργυιάς, ἡ (ὀρέγω to stretch out), the distance across the breast front the tip of one middle finger to the tip of the other when the arms are outstretched; five or six feet, a fathom: Acts 27:28. (Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, others.)

Strong's Greek: 3712. ὀργυιά (orguia) — 2 Occurrences

Acts 27:28 - N-AFP
GRK: βολίσαντες εὗρον ὀργυιὰς εἴκοσι βραχὺ
NAS: [it to be] twenty fathoms; and a little
KJV: [it] twenty fathoms: and
INT: having sounded they found fathoms twenty a little

Acts 27:28 - N-AFP
GRK: βολίσαντες εὗρον ὀργυιὰς δεκαπέντε
NAS: and found [it to be] fifteen fathoms.
KJV: found [it] fifteen fathoms.
INT: having sounded they found fathoms fifteen