noun · neuter
lentiem
Strong’sG3012
a towel, apron
stem lenti-2 times 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.
*† λέντιον, -ου, τό (Lat. linteum),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3012 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlen'-tee-on
a "linen" cloth, i.e. apron
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamestowel.
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
= Latin linteum, cloth, napkin, towel, NT+2nd c.AD+:—hence λεντι-άριος, ὁ, probably attendant at the bath, Refs
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 | lentiem | lentieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | lentieu | lentieiu |
| to, for dative | lentie1×λεντίῳ | lentiei |
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
lentie 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
lentie“towel”to, fordative singular1×
John 13:5… podoin toiu mathētoiu kai ekmassarō te lentie he ate diazōnorēntos.… feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.
lentiem1×
John 13:4… kai tithatō teim himatieim kai labarantos lentiem diazōnata heauton;… His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.