Word Summary
osteon: a bone
Original Word: ὀστέονTransliteration: osteon
Phonetic Spelling: (os-teh'-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a bone
Meaning: a bone
Strong's Concordance
bone.
Or contracted ostoun (os-toon') of uncertain affinity; a bone -- bone.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3747: ὀστέονὀστέον, contracted
ὀστοῦν, genitive
ὀστέου,
τό (akin to Latin
os,
ossis;
Curtius, § 213, cf., p. 41),
a bone:
John 19:36; plural
ὀστέα,
Luke 24:39; genitive
ὀστέων (on these uncontracted forms cf. (
WHs Appendix, p. 157);
Winers Grammar, § 8, 2 d.; (
Buttmann, p. 13 (12))),
Matthew 23:27;
Ephesians 5:30 (
R G Tr marginal reading brackets);
Hebrews 11:22. (From
Homer down; the
Sept. very often for
עֶצֶם.)