And there arose a great storm of wind,.... Called Laelaps, a wind that is suddenly whirled about upwards and downwards, and is said to be a storm, or tempest of wind with rain; it was a sort of a hurricane:and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was full; of water, and ready to sink.
Beza says in one copy it read, buyizesyai, and so in one of Stephens's.