Strong's Concordance hupolénion: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice) Original Word: ὑπολήνιον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: hupolénion Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ol-ay'-nee-on) Short Definition: a pit under the wine-press Definition: a wine-vat, pit under the wine-press dug in the ground. 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.) |
