μόδιος
módios · G3426 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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basket, box
A container for dry matter with a capacity of about eight liters (about two gallons)
ExamplesMatthew 5:15 nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.
Mark 4:21 And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, or under a bed, is it? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
Luke 11:33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
How it’s used In 1 role
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3 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπόby, under 5
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Near synonyms 2 words
- σάτον sáton · G4568 · saton, measure, batch
- Both are dry measures; saton is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew seah, representing a similar order of magnitude and functional category as modius in measuring dry goods.
- κόρος kóros · G2884 · cor
- Both are dry measures used for grain and other dry goods, though cor is a much larger measure; they belong to the same semantic category of volumetric measurement units.
In the other Testament 1 word
- סְאָה çᵉʼâh · H5429 · seah
- Both denote specific dry measures used in their respective cultures; seah is the standard Hebrew dry measure approximately equivalent in function to the Greek modius, though differing in actual capacity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Basket, box6.151
- This sense denotes a container used to measure grain, here used to describe hiding a lamp's light. Matthew 5:15 says, “nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand.”
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μοδιου, ὁ, the Latinmodius, a dry measure holding 16 sextarii (or one sixth of the Attic…
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
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