Lexicon kónóps: a gnat Original Word: κώνωψ, ωπος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kónóps Phonetic Spelling: (ko'-nopes) Short Definition: a gnat, mosquito Definition: a gnat, mosquito, referred to proverbially as something small. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably from kónos; (cone-shaped) and óps (eye, face) Definitiona gnat NASB Translationgnat (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2971: κώνωψκώνωψ, κωνωπος, ὁ, a gnat (( Aeschylus), Herodotus, Hippocrates, others); of the wine-gnat or midge that is bred in (fermenting and) evaporating wine ( Aristotle, h. an. 5, 19 (p. 552{b}, 5; cf. Bochart, Hierozoicon, iii. 444; Buxtorf, Lex. talm. etc. 921 (474{a} Fischer edition))): Matthew 23:24.
Strong's gnat. Apparently a derivative of the base of kentron and a derivative of optanomai; a mosquito (from its stinging proboscis) -- gnat. see GREEK kentron see GREEK optanomai |
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