Winepress
ληνόςStrong’s G3025lēnos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Lēnos is the Greek word usually translated “winepress” and “press”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:”
Meaning
Usually translated “winepress” and “press”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- winepress 3
- a winepress 1
- press 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 3
- Matthew 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 14:19And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
- Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
- Revelation 19:15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Greek dictionary
ληνός lēnos · winepress
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).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “winepress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WINE-PRESS, noun
[wine and press.]
A place where grapes are pressed.
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.