Word Summary
arnion: lamb
Original Word: ἀρνίονTransliteration: arnion
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-nee'-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: lamb
Meaning: lamb
Strong's Concordance
lamb.
Diminutive from aren; a lambkin -- lamb.
see GREEK aren
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 721: ἀρνίονἀρνίον,
ἀρνίου,
τά (diminutive from
ἀρήν, which see) (from
Lysias down),
a little lamb, a lamb:
Revelation 13:11; Jesus calls his followers
τά ἀρνία μου in
John 21:15;
τό ἀρνίον is used of Christ, innocently suffering and dying to expiate the sins of men, very often in Revelation, as
Revelation 5:6, 8, 12, etc. (
Jeremiah 11:19;
Jeremiah 27:45 (); Psalm 113:4, 6 (); Josephus, Antiquities 3, 8, 10.)