Word Summary
phelonēs: cloak
Original Word: φελόνηςTransliteration: phelonēs
Phonetic Spelling: (fel-on'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: cloak
Meaning: cloak
Strong's Concordance
cloak.
By transposition for a derivative probably of phaino (as showing outside the other garments); a mantle (surtout) -- cloke.
see GREEK phaino
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5341: φαιλόνηςφαιλόνης (so
Rec.eras st) or
φελόνης (with most manuscripts including the Sinaiticus manuscript,
Rec.bez elz G L T Tr (
WH (cf. their Introductory § 404 and Appendix, p. 151{a}; W. Dindosf in
Stephanus' Thesaurus under the word
φαινόλης, col. 583))), by metathesis for the more common
φαινόλης (found in (
Epictetus 4, 8, 24);
Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 3; 5, 29;
Pollux 7 (13) 61;
Athen. 3, p. 97),
φαιλονου,
ὁ, Latin
paenula,
a traveling cloak, used for protection against stormy weather:
2 Timothy 4:13, where others erroneously understand it to mean a case or receptacle for books as even the Syriac renders it
)BtK tYB [
]. STRONGS NT 5341: φελόνηςφελόνης, see φαιλόνης.