ἀκάνθινος
akánthinos · G174 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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crown of thorns
(Derivative of ἄκανθα ‘thorn plant,’) Pertaining to being made or consisting of thorns; in the NT, only in the phrase ἀκάνθινον στέφανον, a crown made from a plant with sharp projections on its stem and/or branches; symbol of hardship
ExamplesMark 15:17 And they dressed Him in purple, and after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;
John 19:5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Crown of thorns3.18
- In Mark 15:17, the soldiers dress Jesus in purple “and after twisting together a crown of thorns (akánthinon stephanon), they put it on Him,” where the adjective specifically describes the woven crown made from thorn branches.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἄκανθα; Cf. ἀμαράντινος), thorny, woven out of the twigs of a thorny plant: Mk 15:17; Jn…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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