"a small vessel, boat, Mk. 3:9; Jn. 6:22, 23, 24"
Definition and meaning
a small vessel, boat, Mk. 3:9; Jn. 6:22, 23, 24
In the original Greek the word is written: πλοιάριον
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of ploiarion (G4142) across the King James Bible.
And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
And the other disciples came in a little ship;(for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
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Common questions
Strong's G4142 (ploiarion) is a Greek word that means: a small vessel, boat, Mk. 3:9; Jn. 6:22, 23, 24 It appears 5 times in the King James Bible.
The word ploiarion (G4142) appears 5 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G4142 is ploiarion, a Greek word defined as: a small vessel, boat, Mk. 3:9; Jn. 6:22, 23, 24. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
ploiarion is a Greek word found in the New Testament.