plank

Greek Noun Female

σανίς, -ίδος, ἡ [in LXX: Sng.8:9, Eze.27:5 (לוּחַ) *;] a board, plank: Act.27:44 (AS)

plank

Greek Noun Female

σᾰνίς, ίδος, ἡ, board, plank, timber, σ. πτελεΐνη [NT+3rd c.BC+]:—hence anything made thereof, 1) door, [Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural, folding doors, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κολληταὶ σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely in singular, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 2) wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῆς σ. [Refs 8th c.BC+] 3) wooden floor, especially ship's deck, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 4) bench, seat, [Refs 4th c.BC+] 5) lid of box, variant in [LXX] 6) in plural, wooden tablets for writing on, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: especiallyat Athens and elsewhere, tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, especially the causes for hearing in the law-courts, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; laws to be proposed, Decrees cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; lists of officers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; names of debtors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Rome, of the tables on which the laws were written, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] 6.b) plural, painted panels, pictures, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] 7) plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (variant{προσδιε-}) πασσάλευσαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Greek

Noun Feminine

a plank; board; of uncertain affinity