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And they launched forth (kai anēchthēsan). First aorist passive indicative of anagō, an old verb, to lead up, to put out to sea (looked at as going up from the land). This nautical sense of the verb occurs only in Luke in the N.T. and especially in the Acts (Act 13:13; Act 16:11; Act 18:21; Act 20:3, Act 20:13; Act 21:1, Act 21:2; Act 27:2, Act 27:4, Act 27:12, Act 27:21; Act 28:10.).