Lexicon mulón: mill. Original Word: μυλών, ῶνος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: mulón Phonetic Spelling: (moo'-lone) Short Definition: a mill-house Definition: a mill-house, the place where grain was ground. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3459 mýlōn – a mill; a building (mill) used to operate a grinding mill-stone (it occurs only in Mt 24:41). See 3458 (mlos). The old-styled, Eastern hand-mill required two people. One person dropped a handful of grain on a lower stone, while the other rubbed another stone back-and-forth on it to grind the grain. [An ancient millstone (hand-mill) was generally turned by two women (see also 229 /alḗthō, and Ex 11:5). "There was a handle near the edge of the upper stone" (WP, 1, 194,95).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originvariant reading for mulos, q.v. Thayer's STRONGS NT 3459: μυλώνμυλών (not paroxytone; see Chandler § 596 cf. § 584), μύλωνος, ὁ, place where a mill runs; mill-house: Matthew 24:41 R G. ( Euripides, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Aristotle, others.)
Strong's mill. From mulos; a mill-house -- mill. see GREEK mulos |
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