Lexical Summary hypolēnion: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice) Original Word: ὑπολήνιονTransliteration: hypolēnion Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ol-ay'-nee-on) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice) Meaning: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice) Strong's Concordance wine vat. Neuter of a presumed compound of hupo and lenos; vessel or receptacle under the press, i.e. Lower wine-vat -- winefat. see GREEK hupo see GREEK lenos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5276: ὑπολήνιονὑπολήνιον, ὑποληνιου, τό (i. e. τό ὑπό τήν ληνόν, cf. τό ὑποζύγιον), a vessel placed under a press (and in the Orient usually sunk in the earth) to receive the expressed juice of the grapes, a pit: (ὤρυξεν ὑπολήνιον; R. V. he digged a pit for the winepress), Mark 12:1; see ληνός (and B. D. under the word Winepress). (Demiopr. quoted in Pollux 10 (29), 130; Geoponica; the Sept. for יֶקֶב, Isaiah 16:10 Joel 3:13 (Joel 4:18); Haggai 2:16; Zechariah 14:10, Alex.) |
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