And moored to the shore

(κα προσωρμισθησαν). Only here in the New Testament, though an old Greek verb and occurring in the papyri. Hορμος is roadstead or anchorage. They cast anchor or lashed the boat to a post on shore. It was at the plain of Gennesaret several miles south of Bethsaida owing to the night wind.

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Old Testament