Word

ἀσκός

askós · G779 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Wineskin, water bagHousehold22 verses

Meanings

wineskin

A bag made of skin or leather; used for temporarily storing and carrying wine

Examples
Matthew 9:17 “Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 2:22 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Luke 5:37 “And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.

How it’s used In 4 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

6 occurrences in 2 groups

καινόςnew 3
παλαιόςold 3

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 2
ῥήγνυμιto tear 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ῥήγνυμιto tear 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 1 groups

εἰςto 10

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

חֵמֶת chêmeth · H2573 · skin-bottle: Hebrew חֵמֶת (bottle) serves as the direct Hebrew equivalent for Greek ἀσκός (leathern bag/bottle), both denoting containers for liquids, particularly wine, in ancient Near Eastern contexts.
נֹאד nôʼd · H4997 · skin-bottle: Hebrew נֹאד and Greek ἀσκός both denote a skin or leather container used for liquids (bottle/wineskin), representing the same material culture item across the Hebrew Bible and its Greek translation tradition.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Wineskin6.132: Used literally of the container for wine in Jesus' teaching that new wine must be put into fresh wineskins in Matthew 9:17 and its parallels.

Word family 2 words

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

ἀσκέω askéō · G778 · to do one’s best, to endeavor · 1×ἀσκόςaskós · G779

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀσκοῦ, ὁ, a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept: Mt 9:17; Mk 2:22; Lk…

ἀσκοῦ, ὁ, a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept: Mt 9:17; Mk 2:22; Lk 5:37f. (Often in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept.) (BB. DD. under the word ; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 92.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Containers12 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