Quick Definition
a winepress
Strong's Definition
a trough, i.e. wine-vat
Derivation: apparently a primary word;
KJV Usage: winepress
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ληνός, ληνοῦ, ἡ (also ὁ, Gen_30:38; Gen_30:41 (cf. below)) (Theocritus, Diodorus, others);
1. a tubor trough-shaped receptacle, vat, in which grapes are trodden (A. V. wine-press) (Hebrew βΗΜϊ): Rev_14:20; Rev_19:15; τήν ληνόν ... τόν μέγαν (for R Tr marginal reading τήν μεγάλην), Rev_14:19 a variation in gender which (though not rare in Hebrew, see Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 717) can hardly be matched in Greek writings; cf. Winers Grammar, 526 (490) and his Exeget. Studd. i., p. 153f; Buttmann, 81 (71).
2. equivalent to ὑπολήνιον (Isa_16:10; Mar_12:1) or προλήνιον (Isa_5:2), Hebrew ιΖχΖα, the lower vat, dug in the ground, into which the must or new wine flowed from the press: Mat_21:33. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Kelter; Roskoff in Schenkel 3:513; (BB. DD. under the word ).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ληνός lēnos 5x
pr. a tub, trough;
a wine-press, into which grapes were cast and trodden, Rev_14:19-20 ; Rev_19:15 ;
a wine-vat, i.q. ὑπολήνιον , the lower vat into which the juice of the trodden grapes flowed, Mat_21:33
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ληνός , -οῦ , ἡ
(in some MSS., LXX and NT, ὁ ),
[in LXX chiefly for H3342 Num_18:27 , al. ; also for H7298 ( Gen_30:38 ; Gen_30:41 ), H1660 ( Neh_13:15 , al. ), etc.;]
a trough or vat; esp . for the treading of grapes: Mat_21:33 , Rev_14:20 ; Rev_19:16 ; τὴν λ . . . . τὸν μέγαν (a solecism perhaps inadvertent), Rev_14:19 ( cf. ὑπολήνιον ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ληνός [page 374]
P Amh II. 48 .7 (B.C. 106) παρὰ ληνόν , at the wine-press, P Oxy IV. 729 .19 (A.D. 137) ἀπ ]οδότωσαν τῷ μεμισθ [ω ]κότι τὸν μὲν οἷνον παρὰ ληνὸν νέον ἄδολον , they shall pay to the lessor the wine at the vat, new and unadulterated (Edd.), ib. III. 502 .36 (A.D. 164) τὰς οὔσας ληνοὺς λιθίνας δύο ὑδριῶν καὶ ὅλμου , the two existing stone presses with the water-pitchers and trough (Edd.). The word is sometimes used to denote generally a receptacle for holding wine, see e.g. P Flor II. 139 .1 (mid. iii/A.D.) τὴν δεκάτη [ν ] ληνὸν ἀπόλυσον Μαξίμῳ , with the editor s note. In Wόnsch AF 4 .19 (iii/A.D.) τοὺς ληνοὺς ὅλους (for gender cf. Gen_30:38 ; Gen_30:41 ) = the whole coffins.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ληνός ληνός, doric λα_νός, οῦ, like Lat. lacus, alveus, a tub or "trough;" esp., "a wine-vat", Theocr. "a trough" for watering cattle, Hhymn.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ληνός, -οῦ, ἡ
(in some MSS., LXX and NT, ὁ), [in LXX chiefly for יֶקֶב Num.18:27, al.; also for רַהַט (Gen.30:38, 41), גַּת (Neh.13:15, al.), etc. ;]
a trough or vat; esp. for the treading of grapes: Mat.21:33, Rev.14:20 19:16; τὴν λ. . . . τὸν μέγαν (a solecism perhaps inadvertent), Rev.14:19 (cf. ὑπολήνιον).†
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