Strong G3690ὄξος
vinegar
- Transliteration
- oxos
- Pronunciation
- ox'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From G3691; vinegar that is sour wine: - vinegar.
Detailed definition
ὄξος, -εος (-ους), τό
(ὄξύς), [in LXX: Num.6:3, Rut.2:14, Psa.69:21, Pro.25:20 (חֹמֶץ)*;]
sour wine (posca, vin-Deu pays), the ordinary drink of labourers and common soldiers: Mat.27:48, Mrk.15:36, Luk.23:36, Jhn.19:29-30.†
(AS)
(ὄξύς), [in LXX: Num.6:3, Rut.2:14, Psa.69:21, Pro.25:20 (חֹמֶץ)*;]
sour wine (posca, vin-Deu pays), the ordinary drink of labourers and common soldiers: Mat.27:48, Mrk.15:36, Luk.23:36, Jhn.19:29-30.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3690 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- vinegar6
First verses
- Matthew 27:34They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
- Matthew 27:48And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
- Mark 15:36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
- Luke 23:36And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
- John 19:29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
- John 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὄξος, εος, τό,
(ὀξύς) poor wine, 'vin ordinaire', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 35; κοτύλας τέτταρας ὄξους Δεκελικοῦ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 285, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.14, “POxy.” 1275.20 (3rd c.AD);compare ὀξίνης 1.)]
2 vinegar made therefrom, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.334.4, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 322, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 61, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.413, etc.; ὑπώμνυτο ὁ μὲν οἶνος ὄ. αὑτὸν εἶναι γνήσιον, τὸ δ᾽ ὄ. οἶνον αὑτό 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 65; σφόδρ᾽ ἐστὶν.. ὁ βίος οἴνῳ προσφερής· ὅταν ᾖ τὸ λοιπὸν μικρόν, ὄ. γίγνεται 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 240)]; ἐς τὰς ῥῖνας ὄ. ἐγχέων, as a mode of torture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 620.)]
3 metaphorically, of a sour fellow, χὡνὴρ ὄ. ἅπαν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.148.)]
(ὀξύς) poor wine, 'vin ordinaire', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 35; κοτύλας τέτταρας ὄξους Δεκελικοῦ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 285, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.14, “POxy.” 1275.20 (3rd c.AD);compare ὀξίνης 1.)]
2 vinegar made therefrom, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.334.4, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 322, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 61, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.413, etc.; ὑπώμνυτο ὁ μὲν οἶνος ὄ. αὑτὸν εἶναι γνήσιον, τὸ δ᾽ ὄ. οἶνον αὑτό 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 65; σφόδρ᾽ ἐστὶν.. ὁ βίος οἴνῳ προσφερής· ὅταν ᾖ τὸ λοιπὸν μικρόν, ὄ. γίγνεται 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 240)]; ἐς τὰς ῥῖνας ὄ. ἐγχέων, as a mode of torture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 620.)]
3 metaphorically, of a sour fellow, χὡνὴρ ὄ. ἅπαν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.148.)]