Pit
βόθυνοςStrong’s G0999bothunos
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Bothunos is the Greek word usually translated “pit”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?”
Meaning
Usually translated “pit”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a pit 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 2
- Luke 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Greek dictionary
βόθυνος bothunos · pit
βόθυνος, -ου, ὁ (= βόθρος, more frequently in cl.), [in LXX chiefly for פַּחַת ;] a pit: Mat.12:11 15:14, Luk.6:39 (cf. DB, iii, 885; DCG, ii, 367).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIT, verb transitive
To indent; to press into hollows.
- To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.
- To set in competition, as in combat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.