Lexical Summary asson: nearer Original Word: ἆσσονTransliteration: asson Phonetic Spelling: (as'-son) Part of Speech: Adverb, Comparative Short Definition: nearer Meaning: nearer Strong's Concordance close. Neuter comparative of the base of eggus; more nearly, i.e. Very near -- close. see GREEK eggus Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 788: ἆσσονἆσσον, adverb, nearer (comparative of ἄγχι near (cf. ἐγγύς)): Acts 27:13 (here Rec.st Ασσον (or Ασσον, which see), Rec.bez elz ἆσσον (cf. Tdf. at the passage); but see Meyer). (Homer, Herodotus, tragic poets; Josephus, Antiquities 19, 2, 4.) |