ploion denotes a watercraft used for fishing, travel, teaching from offshore, and voyages across sea or lake.

The term consistently denotes a watercraft: people board it, travel or fish from it, use it as an offshore setting for teaching, and in one voyage account struggle to preserve it before it is lost. The same noun can refer to a single craft or to several such vessels.

1. Watercraft for fishing, crossing, and sea travel · dominant

   The noun identifies the craft entered, occupied, or used on the water: in Luke 5:3 the APB renders a scene in which someone gets into one vessel and teaches the crowds from it, while in John 21:6 it places the net beside the vessel. It also marks transport across water in Mark 6:45 and Acts 21:2, and the vessel subjected to damage and eventual loss during the voyage in Acts 27:22 and Acts 27:44.

   Luke 5:3John 21:6Mark 6:45Acts 21:2Acts 27:22Acts 27:44

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the noun as “boat” or “ship,” and uses “boats” or “ships” where the supplied morphology is plural. These English labels confirm the verse-level watercraft setting rather than establish separate lexical senses.