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ἀκροθίνιον

akrothínion · G205 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. the best of the booty, the finest spoils, the most valuable plunder

    The best part of the booty, particularly that which is offered to deity

    Examples

    Hebrews 7:4 Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils.

How it’s used In 1 role

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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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Near synonyms 1 word
σκῦλον skŷlon · G4661 · booty, spoils, plunder
σκῦλον denotes spoils/plunder generically, while ἀκροθίνιον specifies the best or choicest portion of the spoils. They are related but distinct: σκῦλον is the broader category, ἀκροθίνιον the premium subset.
Semantic domains 1 entry
The best of the booty, the finest spoils, the most valuable plunder57.244
In Hebrews 7:4, Abraham is said to have given Melchizedek “a tenth of the choicest spoils (tōn akrothiníōn),” naming the finest portion of plunder taken in his military victory.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄκρον ákron · G206 · extreme boundary, final limit, end · 6×ἀκροβυστία akrobystía · G203 · being uncircumcised, the foreskin not cut off, uncircumcised · 20×ἀκριβῶς akribōs · G199 · accurate, accurately, strict · 9×ἀκριβόω akribóō · G198 · to learn exactly, to find out accurately, to ascertain · 2×ἀκρογωνιαῖος akrogōniaîos · G204 · cornerstone, important stone · 2×ἀκρίβεια akríbeia · G195 · strictness, strict conformance to, accurateness · 1×ἀκριβέστατος akribéstatos · G196 · accurate, accurately, strict · 1×ἀκροθίνιονakrothínion · G205
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τό (from ἄκρος extreme, and θίς, genitive θινός, a heap; extremity, topmost part of a…
τό (from ἄκρος extreme, and θίς, genitive θινός, a heap; extremity, topmost part of a heap), generally in plural τά ἀκροθίνια the first-fruits, whether of crops or of spoils (among the Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered to the gods, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 35); in the Bible only once: Heb 7:4, of booty. (Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Steal, Rob1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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