Lexicon glóssokomon: a case, a box Original Word: γλωσσόκομον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: glóssokomon Phonetic Spelling: (gloce-sok'-om-on) Short Definition: bag, purse, box, chest Definition: (a vernacular word), bag, purse; some prefer to take as: box, chest. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom glóssa and the same as komizóDefinitiona case, a box NASB Translationmoney box (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1101: γλωσσόκομονγλωσσόκομον, γλωσσοκομου, τό (for the earlier γλωσσοκομειον or γλωσσοκομιον ( Winer's Grammar, 24 (23), 94 (90); yet see Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions 2448, 8:25, 31), from γλῶσσα and κομέω to tend); a. a case in which to keep the mouth-pieces of wind instruments. b. a small box for other uses also; especially a casket, purse to keep money in: John 12:6; John 13:29; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 98f. (For אָרון a chest, 2 Chronicles 24:8, 10f; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 1, 2; Plutarch, Longin, others.)
Strong's money-box, purse, bag From glossa and the base of kosmos; properly, a case (to keep mouthpieces of wind-instruments in) i.e. (by extension) a casket or (specially) purse -- bag. see GREEK glossa see GREEK kosmos |
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