'Sail' in the Bible
Hiram sent his servants to sail with the fleet, since they were expert seamen, and so they accompanied Solomon's servants.
Jehoshaphat had ocean-going vessels from Tarshish sail to Ophir for gold, but they never made it because they were shipwrecked at Ezion-geber.
He also agreed with King Ahaziah to build ships to sail toward Tarshish, which they built in Ezion-geber.
But Dodavahu's son Eliezer from Mareshah prophesied in opposition to Jehoshaphat, "Because you have entered into an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your efforts." So the ships were destroyed and were never able to sail for Tarshish.
There [the] ships sail. Leviathan [is there] that you formed to play with.
Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
Lament, you residents of the coast, you merchants of Sidon who travel over the sea, whose agents sail over
But there the LORD in majesty will be for us our source of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, where no stately ship can sail.
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the ends of the earth, you who sail down the sea and by everything in it, you coastlands and their inhabitants.
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
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