סְפִינָהçᵉphîynâh

vessel, ship, covered in, overlaid, with sheathing, deck, etc.

Pronunciation: sef-ee-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5600

Meanings

(Jonah 1:5)

Same root

סָפַןçâphan · H5603to hide by covering; specifically, to roof (passive participle as noun, a roof) or wainscot; figuratively, to reserve

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Jonah 1:5 Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. But all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).