Word Summary
bothynos: a pit
Original Word: βόθυνοςTransliteration: 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: βόθυνοςβόθυνος,
βοθύνου,
ὁ,
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.)