noun · masculine
bothunos
Greekβόθυνος (bothunos)
Strong’sG999
a pit, ditch
stem bothun-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
bothunon“pit”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 12:11“pit”tos de legata autoi; Tinos eti ek vu anthrōpos hos echati probatem henem, kai ean empiptateia houtem tei sabbatei eis bothunon, ouchi kratati autem kai egeirati?He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?
Matthew 15:14“pit”afiēkavar autoin; tuflois alō hodēgois tufloiu; tuflos de tuflon ean hodēgateiō, amfoterois eis bothunon pipteli.Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
Luke 6:39“pit”Legata de kai parabolan autoi; Mēti dunetō tuflos tuflon hodēgarō? ouchi amfoterois eis bothunon empipteli?Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?