noun · masculine
spongos
Strong’sG4699
a sponge
stem spong-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
* σπόγγος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4699 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidspong'-gos
a "sponge"
Fromperhaps of foreign origin;
King Jamesspunge.
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
sponge, σ. πολυτρήτοισι τραπέζας νίζον Refs 8th c.BC+; used at the bath, Refs 5th c.BC+; for cleaning shoes. NT+5th c.BC+
II any spongy substance, σικυώνης σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ σ. the glands in the throat, tonsils, from their spongy nature and liability to swell, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III ={νήριον}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+. (σφόγγος is found in Refs 4th c.BC+; compare σπογγιά, σπογγίον.)
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 | spongos | spongois |
| object accusative | spongon3×σπόγγον | spongoin |
| direct address vocative | spongor | spongoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | spongou | spongoiu |
| to, for dative | spongo | spongoi |
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
spongo 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
spongon“sponge”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 27:48… trecharantos henos ek autoiu kai labarantos spongon pimplēarantos tē oxeu kai perititharantos kalamo …… them quickly ran and brought a sponge. He filled it with sour wine …
Mark 15:36trecharantos de tinos kai gemizarantos spongon oxeu perititharantos kalamo potizate auton, legarōntos; …And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it …
John 19:29skevem keiote oxeu mestem; spongon oun meston teu oxeu hussōpa perititharantois …… sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on …