Greek noun (neuter) · G3800
ὀψώνιον
opsonionop-so'-nee-on
provisions, provision-money, soldiers' pay; Generally, wages, hire
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: opsṓnion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3800is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3800
rations for a soldier, i.e. (by extension) his stipend or pay
The King James renders it: wages.
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
opsonion is rendered "provisions, provision-money, soldiers' pay; Generally, wages, hire". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "provisions, provision-money, soldiers' pay".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
Luke 3:14ὀψωνίοις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: provisions, provision-money, soldiers' pay, and Generally, wages, hire.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| provisions, provision-money, soldiers' payLuk.3:14, 1Co.9:7. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false… |
| Generally, wages, hire2Co.11:8; ὄ. τῆς ἁμαρτίας, Rom.6:23 (see Deiss, BS, 148, 266).† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereRomans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ὀψωνίοις2
- ὀψώνια1
- ὀψώνιον1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural2N-DPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1N-NPN
Luke
one use
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- ὀψωνίοιςopsonioisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: wages
Romans
one use
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- ὀψώνιαopsonianoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: wages
1 Corinthians
one use
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
- ὀψωνίοιςopsonioisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: expense
2 Corinthians
one use
I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.
- ὀψώνιονopsonionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: support
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.