λίνον
línon · G3043 · Greek · 2 occurrences
A word for 3 things
- Flax (linen)Plants for weaving and building104 verses
- LinenCloth manufacture89 verses
- Oil lamp and wickHousehold67 verses
Meanings
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linen, linen garment
Linen cloth, normally in the form of a garment
ExamplesRevelation 15:6 and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and their chests wrapped with golden sashes.
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wick
A linen cord in a lamp that draws up the oil
ExamplesMatthew 12:20 “A BENT REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A DIMLY BURNING WICK HE WILL NOT EXTINGUISH, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- καθαρόςclean 1
- λαμπρόςbright 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνδύωto put on, to clothe 1
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- פִּשְׁתָּה pishtâh · H6594 · flax, workers in combed flax
- פִּשְׁתָּה (pishtâh, H6594) is the Hebrew lexeme for the flax plant and its fibers, directly corresponding to λίνον (línon, G3043) as the Greek equivalent for the same botanical material and its textile product (linen).
- פִּשְׁתֶּה pishteh · H6593 · flax, workers in combed flax
- Hebrew פִּשְׁתֶּה (pishteh, H6593) denotes the same material referent as Greek λίνον (línon, G3043) — both the flax plant and the linen textile derived from it — representing direct cross-linguistic equivalence in the LXX's material-culture vocabulary.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Wick6.158
- λίνον can name the wick of a lamp. Matthew 12:20 quotes the prophecy, “A BENT REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A DIMLY BURNING WICK HE WILL NOT EXTINGUISH,” the λίνον naming this faintly burning wick the Servant will not snuff out.
- Linen, linen garment6.165
- The same word more often names linen cloth or a linen garment. Revelation 15:6 describes the seven angels with the seven plagues coming out of the temple, “clothed in linen, clean and bright,” the λίνον naming this pure linen garment they wore.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Treg. λίνον (so R G in Matt. as below), incorrectly, for the iota ἰ is short; (cf.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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
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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