noun · masculine
bothunos
Strong’sG999
a pit, ditch
stem bothun-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
βόθυνος, -ου, ὁ (= βόθρος, more freq. in cl.),
[in LXX chiefly for פַּחַת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G999 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidboth'-oo-nos
a hole (in the ground); specially, a cistern
Fromakin to G900;
King Jamesditch, pit.
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
={βόθρος}, Refs 5th c.BC+
II a meteorological phenomenon, Refs 4th 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 nominative | bothunos | bothunois |
| object accusative | bothunon3×βόθυνον | bothunoin |
| direct address vocative | bothunor | bothunoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | bothunou | bothunoiu |
| to, for dative | bothuno | bothunoi |
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
bothuno 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
bothunon“pit”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 12:11… ean empiptateia houtem tei sabbatei eis bothunon, ouchi kratati autem kai egerati?… sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not …
Matthew 15:14… de tuflon ean hodēgateiō, amfoterois eis bothunon pipteli.… man, both will fall into a pit.”
Luke 6:39… tuflos tuflon hodēgarō? ouchi amfoterois eis bothunon empipteli?… they not both fall into a pit?