noun · neuter
akrothiniem
Strong’sG205
spoil, treasure
stem akrothini-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἀκροθίνιον, -ου, τό
(< ἄκρος, θίς, a heap),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G205 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak-roth-in'-ee-on
properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e. (by implication) best of the booty
Fromfrom G206 and θίς (a heap);
King Jamesspoils.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 5th c.BC+; mostly plural ἀκρο-θίνια or ἀκρό-θῑνα, Refs 5th c.BC+: singularἄκρο-θις, ἡ, accusative -θιναRefs 4th c.BC+: (ἄκρος, θίς):—topmost or best part of heap; hence, firstfruits of the field, booty, etc., offered to the gods, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀκρόθινα πολέμου, in Refs 5th c.BC+, of the Olympic games, as founded from spoils taken in war, compare Refs.—Properly neuter adjective, Refs 4th c.BC+ offerings of firstfruits. Post-Refs 8th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | akrothiniem | akrothinieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | akrothinieu | akrothinieiu1×ἀκροθινίων |
| to, for dative | akrothinie | akrothiniei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
akrothinie is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
akrothinieiu“spoils”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Hebrews 7:4“spoils”… ho dekatan Abraam dōata ek teiu akrothinieiu tos patriarchos.… was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.