pinaxos

Strong’sG4094

a plate, platter

stem pinax-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.

** πίναξ, -ακος, ὁ,

[in LXX: IV Mac 17:7 R*;]

prop., a board, plank; hence, of various at wooden articles;

(a) a tablet;

(b) a disc, a dish: Mt 14:8, 11, Mk 6:25, 28, Lk 11:39.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4094 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpin'-ax

a plate

Fromapparently a form of G4109;

King Jamescharger, platter.

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

πίναξ [ῐ], ᾰκος, ὁ,
board, plank, πίνακάς τε νεῶν Refs 8th c.BC+, compare πινακηδό; πίνακος κουρά sawdust, Refs 5th c.AD+
1 drawing- or writing-tablet, ={δέλτος}, γράψας ἐν π. πτυκτῷ Refs 8th c.BC+; of a votive tablet hung on the image of a god, Refs 4th c.BC+; Πίνακες tables or catalogues of authors, name of a work by Callimachus, Refs 2nd c.AD+; lists of philosophers, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 trencher, platter, κρειῶν πίνακας παρέθηκεν Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ ἀργυροῦ π. Refs 4th c.BC+; salver, πίνακα.. μέγαν, ἔχοντα μικροὺς πέντε πινακίσκους Refs; πίνακες ὑέλινοι Refs 6th c.AD+
3 board for painting on, picture, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 generally, plate with anything drawn or engraved on it, χάλκεος π., of a map, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. γεωγραφικός, first made by Anaximander, Refs 1st c.BC+
5 board or tablet on which astronomical tables were drawn, ἡ περὶ πίνακα μέθοδος the art of casting nativities, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἀγυρτικοὶ π. Refs
5.b proverbial, ἐκ πίνακος καὶ πυλαίας, of a trivial fiction, Refs
6 public notice-board or register, π. ἐκκλησιαστικός Refs 4th c.BC+; but δαμόσιος π. public archive, Refs 2nd c.BC+
7 strop, to sharpen knives on, Refs 4th c.BC+
8 toy-theatre for marionettes, Refs 2nd c.BC+ (Cf. OSlavonic p[icaron]n[icaron] 'tree-stump'.)

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.

platter4×dish1×

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	pinaxos	pinaxois
object accusative	pinaxon	pinaxoin
direct address vocative	pinaxor	pinaxoir
of, belonging to genitive	pinaxou1×πίνακος	pinaxoiu
to, for dative	pinaxo4×πίνακι	pinaxoi

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

pinaxstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

pinaxo 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

pinaxou“dish”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 11:39… tem exōthen teu potērieu kai tou pinaxou katharizavō, tem de esōthen vu gematō …… the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of …

pinaxo“platter”to, fordative singular4×

Matthew 14:8… autau; Dōasar mi, fēatō, hōde epi pinaxo tan kefalan Iōannou tou baptistou.… said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

Matthew 14:11kai ferita tas kefalas autou epi pinaxo kai dōita te korasie, kai ferata …… head was brought in on a platter and presented to the girl, who …

Mark 6:25… Thelamō hina exautēs dōaseia mi epi pinaxo tan kefalan Iōannou tou baptistou.… of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

Mark 6:28kai ferata tan kefalan autou epi pinaxo kai dōata autan te korasie, kai …… man brought John’s head on a platter and presented it to the girl …