Lexicon lenos: a winepress Original Word: ληνός, οῦ, ὁ, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: lenos Phonetic Spelling: (lay-nos') Short Definition: a winepress Definition: a trough, vat, winepress. Thayer's STRONGS NT 3025: ληνόςληνός, ληνοῦ, ἡ (also ὁ, Genesis 30:38, 41 (cf. below)) ( Theocritus, Diodorus, others); 1. a tubor trough-shaped receptacle, vat, in which grapes are trodden (A. V. wine-press) (Hebrew גַּת): Revelation 14:20; Revelation 19:15; τήν ληνόν ... τόν μέγαν (for R Tr marginal reading τήν μεγάλην), Revelation 14:19 — a variation in gender which (though not rare in Hebrew, see Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 717) can hardly be matched in Greek writings; cf. Winers Grammar, 526 (490) and his Exeget. Studd. i., p. 153f; Buttmann, 81 (71). 2. equivalent to ὑπολήνιον (Isaiah 16:10; Mark 12:1) or προλήνιον (Isaiah 5:2), Hebrew יֶקֶב, the lower vat, dug in the ground, into which the must or new wine flowed from the press: Matthew 21:33. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Kelter; Roskoff in Schenkel 3:513; (BB. DD. under the word ).
Strong's winepress. Apparently a primary word; a trough, i.e. Wine-vat -- winepress. |
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