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Lexicon :: Strong's G229 - alēthō

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ἀλήθω
Transliteration
alēthō (Key)
Pronunciation
al-ay'-tho
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as ἄλευρον (G224)
mGNT
2x in 1 unique form(s) TR
2x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
4x in 4 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀλήθω alḗthō, al-ay'-tho; from the same as G224; to grind:—grind.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G229 in the following manner: grinding (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G229 in the following manner: grinding (2x).

  1. to grind

    It was the custom to send women and female slaves to the mill houses to turn the hand mills.
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀλήθω alḗthō, al-ay'-tho; from the same as G224; to grind:—grind.
STRONGS G229:
ἀλήθω; (a common Greek form for the Attic ἀλέω, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 151); to grind: Matthew 24:41; Luke 17:35.
It was the custom to send women and female slaves to the mill-houses [?] to turn the hand-mills (Exodus 11:5), who were called by the Greeks γυναῖκες ἀλετρίδες (Homer, Odyssey 20, 105); [cf. B. D. under the word Mill].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
11:5
Matthew
24:41
Luke
17:35

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G229 matches the Greek ἀλήθω (alēthō),
which occurs 4 times in 4 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:8

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The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

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The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

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on the day when the guardians of the house tremble,

and the strong men stoop,

the women who grind grain cease because they are few,

and the ones who watch through the windows see dimly,

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the doors at the street are shut

while the sound of the mill fades;

when one rises at the sound of a bird,

and all the daughters of song grow faint.

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