Word Summary
esoptron: a mirror (i.e. an object for looking into)
Original Word: ἔσοπτρονTransliteration: esoptron
Phonetic Spelling: (es'-op-tron)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a mirror (i.e. an object for looking into)
Meaning: a mirror (an object for looking into)
Strong's Concordance
glass.
From eis and a presumed derivative of optanomai; a mirror (for looking into) -- glass. Compare katoptrizomai.
see GREEK eis
see GREEK optanomai
see GREEK katoptrizomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2072: ἔσοπτρονἔσοπτρον,
ἐσόπτρου,
τό (
ὈΠΤΩ),
a mirror:
1 Corinthians 13:12;
James 1:23. (Wis. 7:26; Sir. 12:11;
Pindar Nem. 7, 20;
Anacreon (
) 11, (7 (6)) 3; Plutarch; others) The mirrors of the ancients were made, not of glass (cf. B. D. under the word , at the end), but of steel; Pliny, h. n. 33 (9) 45; 34, (17) 48 (but see the passages just referred to, and B. D. under the word mirror).