Euroclydon
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(Acts 27:14)—the violent wind that struck the ship carrying the apostle Paul after it sailed from Crete. The name has traditionally been connected with Greek words for an east or southeast wind and for surging waves; many modern texts read Eurakylon, probably indicating a northeaster. It belonged to the fierce Mediterranean winds that sailors called Levant winds. The storm drove Paul’s Alexandrian grain ship for fourteen days before it reached Malta. The source compares the “great wind” in Jonah 1:4 and cites a nineteenth-century traveler caught by a severe storm on a similar route, but those comparisons do not establish that every such storm was the identical wind.