Pleo means “sail” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4126 — moba (“coming”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4126 πλέω (pleo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pleo (pleh'-o) (another form for pleuo plyoo'-o; which is used as an alternate in certain tenses) v. 1. to sail [probably a form of G4150 (through the idea of plunging through the water)] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include sailed, sail, and sailing. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pleo (pleh'-o) (another form for pleuo plyoo'-o; which is used as an alternate in certain tenses) v. 1. to sail [probably a form of G4150 (through the idea of plunging through the water)] KJV: sail Root(s): G4150 See also: G4130
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4126. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to sail
Usage: πλέω [in LXX, before εἰς, Jon.1.3 (בּוֹא), I Est.4:23, Isa.42:10; before ἐπί, 4Ma.7:3; with accusative (poët.), Sir.43:24, 1Ma.13:29 (cf. Act.27:2, Rec.) * ;] to sail: Luk.8:23, Act.27:24; before εἰς, Act.21:3 27:2, 6; ἐπί, Rev.18:17 (cf. ἀπό-, δια-, ἐκ-, κατα-, παρα-, ὑπο-πλέω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pleo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4126 (πλέω) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Sing a new hymn to the Lord: ye who are his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: ye that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;
And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armor for a perpetual memory, and by the armor ships carved, that they might be seen of all that sail on the sea.
in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbor of victory over death.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4126.
Sing a new hymn to the Lord: ye who are his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: ye that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;
And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armor for a perpetual memory, and by the armor ships carved, that they might be seen of all that sail on the sea.
in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbor of victory over death.
Again, one preparing himself to sail, and about to pass through the raging waves, Calleth upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carrieth him.
They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; And when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4126, grouped by book.
Pleo (Strong's G4126) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sail". pleo (pleh'-o) (another form for pleuo plyoo'-o; which is used as an alternate in certain tenses) v. 1. to sail [probably a form of G4150 (through the idea of plunging through the water)]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G4126 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4126 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sailed, sail, and sailing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4126, with linked reader references where each row is available.