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3712 - orguia

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Strong's Concordance

Original word: ὀργυιά
Transliteration: orguia
Definition (short): fathoms
Definition (full): a fathom (the length of the outstretched arms)

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from oregó
Definition: a fathom (the length of the outstretched arms)
NASB Translation: fathoms (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From oregomai; a stretch of the arms, i.e. A fathom -- fathom.

see GREEK oregomai

References

Strong's 3712: 2 Occurrences
KJV: And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
NASB: They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.