Greek noun (neuter) · G3012
λέντιον
lentionlen'-tee-on
towel
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: léntion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3012is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3012
a "linen" cloth, i.e. apron
The King James renders it: towel.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
lention is rendered "towel". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 13:4So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.
John 13:4λέντιον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a towel1
- towel1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- λέντιον1
- λεντίῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
John
two uses
So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.
- λέντιονlentionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a towel
After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.
- λεντίῳlentionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: towel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.