noun · neuter
oxem
Strong’sG3690
vinegar, sour wine
stem ox-6 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 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.
ὄξος, -εος (-ους), τό
(< ὀξύς), [in LXX: Nu 6:3, Ru 2:14, Ps 68 (69):21, Pr 25:20 (חֹמֶץ)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3690 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidoz-os
vinegar, i.e. sour wine
Fromfrom G3691;
King Jamesvinegar.
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
(ὀξύς) poor wine, 'vin ordinaire', Refs 5th c.BC+
2 vinegar made therefrom, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐς τὰς ῥῖνας ὄ. ἐγχέων, as a mode of torture, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, of a sour fellow, χὡνὴρ ὄ. ἅπαν Refs 3rd 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 | oxem | oxeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | oxeu4×ὄξους | oxeiu |
| to, for dative | oxe | oxei |
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
oxe 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
oxeu“sour wine”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 27:48… autoiu kai labarantos spongon pimplēarantos tē oxeu kai perititharantos kalamo potizate auton.… a sponge. He filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, and …
Mark 15:36trecharantos de tinos kai gemizarantos spongon oxeu perititharantos kalamo potizate auton, legarōntos; Afiēkavar …… ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed …
John 19:29skevem keiote oxeu mestem; spongon oun meston teu oxeu …A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked …
John 19:29“sour wine”… oxeu mestem; spongon oun meston teu oxeu hussōpa perititharantois prosferala autou te stome.… jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
oxem2×
Luke 23:36… de auto kai tois stratiōtois proserchorōntois, oxem prosferarōntois auto… and came up to offer Him sour wine.
John 19:30hote oun labata tem oxem tos Iēsus legata; Telotē, kai klinarantos …When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And …