STRONGS NUMBER G999


Word Summary
bothynos: a pit
Original Word: βόθυνος
Transliteration: bothynos
Phonetic Spelling: (both'-oo-nos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a pit
Meaning: a pit
Strong's Concordance
ditch, pit.

Akin to bathuno; a hole (in the ground); specially, a cistern -- ditch, pit.

see GREEK bathuno

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 999: βόθυνος

βόθυνος, βοθύνου, , a pit, a ditch: Matthew 12:11; Matthew 15:14; Luke 6:39. (Solon in Bekker's Anecd. 1:85; Xenophon, oec. 19, 3; Theophrastus, hist. pl. 4, 2, 2 ((variant); others); the Sept. 2 Samuel 18:17, etc.)