Word 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.)