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Meaning of EUROCLYDON

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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\Eu*roc"ly*don\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? the southeast
wind + ? wave, billow; according to another reading, ?, i. e.
a north-east wind, as in the Latin Vulgate Euro-aquilo.]
A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the
Mediterranean. See {Levanter}.
      A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.    --Acts xxvii.
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Easton Bible Dictionary
 
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south-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:14; R.V., "Euraquilo," i.e., north-east wind). It is called a "tempestuous wind," i.e., as literally rendered, a "typhonic wind," or a typhoon. It is the modern Gregalia or Levanter. (Comp. Jonah 1:4.)

 
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