King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3025
Transliteration: lēnos
Phonetic Spelling: (lay-nos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: receiving
Meaning: receiving
ληνός, ληνοῦ, ἡ (also ὁ, Genesis 30:38, 41 (cf. below)) (Theocritus, Diodorus, others);
Word Summary
lēnos: receiving
Original Word: ληνόςTransliteration: lēnos
Phonetic Spelling: (lay-nos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: receiving
Meaning: receiving
Strong's Concordance
winepress. Apparently a primary word; a trough, i.e. Wine-vat -- winepress.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3025: ληνόςληνός, ληνοῦ, ἡ (also ὁ, Genesis 30:38, 41 (cf. below)) (Theocritus, Diodorus, others);
1. a tubor trough-shaped receptacle, vat, in which grapes are trodden (A. V. wine-press) (Hebrew גַּת): Revelation 14:20; Revelation 19:15; τήν ληνόν ... τόν μέγαν (for R Tr marginal reading τήν μεγάλην), Revelation 14:19 — a variation in gender which (though not rare in Hebrew, see Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 717) can hardly be matched in Greek writings; cf. Winers Grammar, 526 (490) and his Exeget. Studd. i., p. 153f; Buttmann, 81 (71).
2. equivalent to ὑπολήνιον (Isaiah 16:10; Mark 12:1) or προλήνιον (Isaiah 5:2), Hebrew יֶקֶב, the lower vat, dug in the ground, into which the must or new wine flowed from the press: Matthew 21:33. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Kelter; Roskoff in Schenkel 3:513; (BB. DD. under the word