Word Summary
hypolēnion: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice)
Original Word: ὑπολήνιονTransliteration: hypolēnion
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-ol-ay'-nee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice)
Meaning: a vessel or trough beneath a winepress (to receive the juice)
Strong's Concordance
wine vat.
Neuter of a presumed compound of hupo and lenos; vessel or receptacle under the press, i.e. Lower wine-vat -- winefat.
see GREEK hupo
see GREEK lenos
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.)