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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

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:8 - The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:3 - in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:4 - and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—
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