Quick Definition
a pit under the wine-press
Strong's Definition
vessel or receptacle under the press, i.e. lower wine-vat
Derivation: neuter of a presumed compound of G5259 (ὑπό) and G3025 (ληνός);
KJV Usage: winefat
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὑπολήνιον, ὑποληνιου, τό (i. e. τό ὑπό τήν ληνόν, cf. τό ὑποζύγιον), a vessel placed under a press (and in the Orient usually sunk in the earth) to receive the expressed juice of the grapes, a pit: (ὤρυξεν ὑπολήνιον; R. V. he digged a pit for the winepress), Mar_12:1; see ληνός (and B. D. under the word Winepress). (Demiopr. quoted in Pollux 10 (29), 130; Geoponica; the Sept. for ιΖχΖα, Isa_16:10 Joe_3:13 (Joel 4:18); Hag_2:16; Zec_14:10, Alex.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὑπολήνιον hypolēnion 1x
a vat, p laced under the press, ληνός , to receive the juice, Mar_12:1
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† ὑπολήνιον , -ου , τό
( < ὑπό , ληνός ),
[in LXX : Joe_3:13 (4:13), Hag_2:17 , (16), Zec_14:10 , Isa_16:10 ( H3342 ) * ;]
a vessel or trough beneath a winepress to receive the juice ( RV , a pit for the winepress ): Mar_12:1 ( v. Swete , in l , and cf. ληνός ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὑπολήνιον [page 658]
denoting the lower trough or pit into which the juice ran from the ληνός (cf. Mar_12:1 ) occurs in a iv/A.D. account, P Oxy XIV. 1735 .5 ῢ̣̣π̣ολήνια δι (πλο )κ (έραμον ) ᾱ
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ὑπολήνιον ὑπο-λήνιον, ου, τό, [Etym: ληνός] "the vessel under a press" to receive the wine or oil, "a vat", Lat. lacus, NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ὑπολήνιον, -ου, τό
(ὑπό, ληνός), [in LXX: Jol.3:13 (4:13), Hag.2:17, (16), Zec.14:10, Isa.16:10 (יֶקֶב) * ;]
a vessel or trough beneath a winepress to receive the juice (RV, a pit for the winepress): Mrk.12:1 (see Swete, in l, and cf. ληνός).†
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