noun · feminine
lēnas
Strong’sG3025
a winepress
stem lēn-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
ληνός, -οῦ, ἡ
(in some MSS., LXX and NT, ὁ), [in LXX chiefly for יֶקֶב, Nu 18:27, al.; also for רַהַט (Ge 30:38, 41), גַּת (Ne 13:15, al.), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3025 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlay-nos'
a trough, i.e. wine-vat
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jameswinepress.
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
Doric dialect λᾱνός Refs 3rd c.BC+: ἡ:— anything shaped like a tub or trough, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially
1 winevat in which the grapes are pressed, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 trough, for watering cattle, watering-place for them, LXX
3 ={κάρδοπος}, kneading-trough, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 socket into which the mast fitted, ={ἱστοπέδη}, Refs 2nd c.BC+
5 coffin, Refs 5th c.BC+
6 part of the brain, the meeting-point of the sinuses of the dura mater, still called torcular Herophili, Refs 3rd c.BC+
7 hollow of a chariot, Refs 5th c.AD+
8 in plural, the lower parts of the nose, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | lēnas1×ληνὸς | lēnais |
| object accusative | lēnan3×ληνὸν | lēnain |
| direct address vocative | lēnar | lēnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | lēnau1×ληνοῦ | lēnaiu |
| to, for dative | lēna | lēnai |
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
lēna 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
lēnas“winepress”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 14:20kai patita tas lēnas exōthen tau polau, kai exerchata haimem …And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and …
lēnan“winepress”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 21:33… auto peritithata kai orussata en auto lēnan kai oikodomata purgon, kai ekdōeta auton …… a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower …
Revelation 14:19… tau gēau, kai balata eis tan lēnan tou thumou tou theou ton megon.… he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
Revelation 19:15… rabda sidēroua; kai autos patatō tan lēnan tou oinou tou thumou tau orgau …… an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath …
lēnau“winepress”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 14:20“winepress”… polau, kai exerchata haimem ek tau lēnau achri toiu chalinoiu toiu hippoiu apo …… outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance …