Bible Dictionary: Ships: Often Impelled by Oars

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jonah 1:13
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea worked, and was tempestuous against them.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

John 6:19
So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the ship: and they were afraid.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Preparations for the Invasion of Greece.
... the oars by which they were impelled required almost ... from time to time, in transport
ships, as fast ... only real safeguard of wealth was, often, the concealment ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter iv preparations for the.htm

Our Watchword
... May our spirits be impelled by a divine energy towards ... his nostrils, and yet that
is too often the condition ... They waited many years till their ships had well ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/our watchword.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... it a kind of natural breakwater, behind which ships could find ... and exact representation
a certain caustic humour, which impelled them often to substitute ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Life of S. Hilarion.
... ruin, showing that it was a legion that impelled them. ... because they are so large
that they often swallow oxen ... sea to burst its bounds, and left ships hanging on ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/the life of s hilarion.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... in a net, with blows from broken oars, with fragments ... with the sheer weight of his
ships and battalions. ... were restored to order, and, as was often customary in ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

A Traveler's Note-Book
... sword, the purple robes,"the tawny oxen, the hollow ships, the tapering oars,"the
wine ... aloof from the pressure and turmoil around us, often felt as ...
/.../merriam/the chief end of man/iii a travelers note-book.htm

Subtopics

Ships of Industrious Women

Ships of Tarshish

Ships of Tyre

Ships were often Wrecked

Ships: (Wrecked) Departure from the Faith