Lexicon askos: a leather bottle, wineskin Original Word: ἀσκός, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: askos Phonetic Spelling: (as-kos') Short Definition: a wine-skin Definition: a wine-skin, leather bottle. HELPS word-Studies 779 askós – a leather wine-skin (not a glass "bottle"). "Our word bottle originally carried the true meaning, being a bottle of leather. In Spanish bota means a leather bottle, a boot, and a butt. In Spain wine is still brought to market in pig-skins" (M. Vincent). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiona leather bottle, wineskin NASB Translationskins (4), wineskins (8).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 779: ἀσκόςἀσκός, ἀσκοῦ, ὁ, a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept: Matthew 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37f. (Often in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept.) ( BB. DD. under the word ; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 92.)
Strong's bottle, wineskin From the same as askeo; a leathern (or skin) bag used as a bottle -- bottle. see GREEK askeo |
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