EUROCLYDON ū rŏk’ lĭ dŏn (Εὐροκλύδων). The name given in later Gr. MSS and VSS in Acts 27:14 to the wind which aroused the storm and caused Paul’s shipwreck at Melita. This reading was adopted by the KJV translators—most likely because they had no earlier and better MSS. This would mean the SE wind that stirs up the waves, from Εὖρος, the E (or SE) “wind,” and κλύδων, G3114, “wave.” A variant of this is Εὐρυκλύδων, from εὐρύς, “broad,” and κλύδων, G3114, “wave.” However, better MSS have Εὐροκύλων, a sailor’s term compounding Εὖρος, E wind with the Lat. Aquilo, N wind, making “northeaster,” as ASV and RSV have it. This suits the local situation on the S coast of Crete where a southerly breeze often gives way to a NE gale.

Bibliography J. Smith, The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul (1880), 119ff., 287ff.