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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

2. (n.) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.

3. (n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

4. (n.) Ships in general.

Greek

4144. ploos -- a voyage
... course, sailing, voyage. From pleo; a sail, ie Navigation -- course, sailing, voyage.
see GREEK pleo. (ploos) -- 1 Occurrence. (ploun) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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Library

Of the Navigation of King Agrippa to Rome, to Tiberius Caesar; and ...
... CHAPTER 6. Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa To Rome, To Tiberius Caesar; And Now
Upon His Being Accused By His Own Freed-Man, He Was Bound; How Also He, Was ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 of the navigation.htm

Antipater's Navigation from Rome to his Father; and How He was ...
... CHAPTER 5. Antipater's Navigation From Rome To His Father; And How He Was Accused
By Nicolaus Of Damascus And Condemned To Die By His Father, And By Quintilius ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 5 antipaters navigation from.htm

God the Teacher.
... You would try to learn the commandments about her. They would be any books which
you could find of rules of navigation, and instruction in seamanship. ...
/.../kingsley/westminster sermons/sermon xi god the teacher.htm

The Conquest of Babylon.
... Babylon."The River Euphrates."Canals."Curious boats."Their mode of construction."
Primitive navigation."Return of the boatmen."Extent of Babylon ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter viii the conquest of.htm

Preparations for the Invasion of Greece.
... Arms."Provisions."Building of ships."Persian possessions on the north of the AEgean
Sea."Promontory of Mount Athos."Dangerous navigation."Plan of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter iv preparations for the.htm

Prayer and Science
... men, not to hire monks to sing and say masses for them, but to set up for themselves
lights and sea-marks, and to take order for the safe navigation of these ...
/.../kingsley/discipline and other sermons/sermon iii prayer and science.htm

"Love and I" --A Mystery
... I invite you to bring hither your best thoughts and skill for the navigation of
this sea. It is not a creek or bay, but the main ocean itself. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 28 1882/love and ia mystery.htm

Volume ii. , Part C. The First Theban Empire
... of Semneh"The vile Kush and its inhabitants: the wars against Kush and their
consequences; the gold-mines"Expeditions to Puanit, and navigation along the ...
/.../volume ii part c the.htm

The Dutch Calvinist Colony on the Hudson and the Swedish Lutheran ...
... peltries; there was a plying to and fro of trading-vessels, and there were
trading-posts established on Manhattan Island and at the head of navigation on the ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter vii the dutch calvinist.htm

The Monk of Thagaste
... Navigation was regularly interrupted from November"sometimes even earlier, from
the first days of October, if the tempests and the equinox were exceptionally ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/iii the monk of thagaste.htm

Thesaurus

Navigation (2 Occurrences)
... water; seamanship. 4. (n.) Ships in general. Multi-Version Concordance
Navigation (2 Occurrences). Acts 27:9 Our voyage thus far ...
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Ships (46 Occurrences)
... fishermen's boats on the Sea of Galilee were called "ships." Much may be learned
regarding the construction of ancient merchant ships and navigation from the ...
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Boats (11 Occurrences)
... They were possessed of a considerable seaboard along the Mediterranean, but the
character of their coast gave little encouragement to navigation. ...
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Navy (4 Occurrences)

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Jordan (188 Occurrences)
... This morass is almost impenetrable by reason of bushes and papyrus reeds, which
in places also render navigation of the channel difficult even with a canoe. ...
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Vessel (118 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for
purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat ...
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Navigate (2 Occurrences)

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Unsafe (2 Occurrences)
... Acts 27:9 Our voyage thus far had occupied a considerable time, and the navigation
being now unsafe and the Fast also already over, Paul warned them. (WEY). ...
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Occupied (32 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Acts 27:9 Our voyage thus far had occupied a considerable time, and the
navigation being now unsafe and the Fast also already over, Paul warned them. ...
/o/occupied.htm - 16k

Warned (63 Occurrences)
... Acts 27:9 Our voyage thus far had occupied a considerable time, and the navigation
being now unsafe and the Fast also already over, Paul warned them. (WEY NIV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Navigation (2 Occurrences)

Acts 27:9 Our voyage thus far had occupied a considerable time, and the navigation being now unsafe and the Fast also already over, Paul warned them.
(WEY DBY)

Acts 27:10 saying, Men, I perceive that the navigation will be with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Navigation

Navigation: Sounding In

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Navigate (2 Occurrences)

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Occupied (32 Occurrences)