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λέντιον

léntion · G3012 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. towel

    A piece of cloth (probably made of linen) used primarily for drying

    Examples

    John 13:4 got up from supper and laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.

    John 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began washing the disciples’ feet and wiping them with the towel which He had tied around Himself.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 words
σιμικίνθιον simikínthion · G4612 · apron
Greek term for an apron or cloth item, semantically very close to λέντιον as a cloth used for practical purposes
σουδάριον soudárion · G4676 · towel, napkin, handkerchief
Greek term for a cloth item, though typically smaller and used for wiping face/hands rather than as an apron
Semantic domains 1 entry
Towel6.161
λέντιον names a linen towel. John 13:4 recounts that Jesus, rising from supper, “took a towel and tied it around Himself,” the λέντιον naming this cloth He wrapped around Himself to wash the disciples' feet.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λεντιου, τό (a Latin word,linteum), a linen cloth, towel (Arrian peripl. mar. rubr. 4):…
λεντιου, τό (a Latin word,linteum), a linen cloth, towel (Arrian peripl. mar. rubr. 4): of the towel or apron, which servants put on when about to work (Suetonius, Calig. 26), Jn 13:4f; with which it was supposed the nakedness of persons undergoing crucifixion was covered, Ev. Nicod. c. 10; cf. Thilo, Cod. Apocrypha, p. 582f.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Cloth, Leather, and Objects Made of Such Materials2 occurrences

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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