Lexical Summary akrothinion: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils Original Word: ἀκροθίνιονTransliteration: akrothinion Phonetic Spelling: (ak-roth-in'-ee-on) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils Meaning: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils Strong's Concordance spoils. From akron and this (a heap); properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e. (by implication) best of the booty -- spoils. see GREEK akron Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 205: ἀκροθίνιονἀκροθίνιον, , τό (from ἄκρος extreme, and θίς, genitive θινός, a heap; extremity, topmost part of a heap), generally in plural τά ἀκροθίνια the first-fruits, whether of crops or of spoils (among the Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered to the gods, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 35); in the Bible only once: Hebrews 7:4, of booty. (Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, others.) |
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