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Lexicon :: Strong's G779 - askos

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ἀσκός
Transliteration
askos (Key)
Pronunciation
as-kos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as ἀσκέω (G778)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀσκός askós, as-kos'; from the same as G778; a leathern (or skin) bag used as a bottle:—bottle.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G779 in the following manner: bottle (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G779 in the following manner: bottle (12x).

  1. a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀσκός askós, as-kos'; from the same as G778; a leathern (or skin) bag used as a bottle:—bottle.
STRONGS G779:
ἀσκός, -οῦ, ὁ, a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept: Matthew 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37f. (Often in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept.) [BB. DD. under the word Bottle; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 92.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
9:17
Mark
2:22
Luke
5:37

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G779 matches the Greek ἀσκός (askos),
which occurs 15 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:4 - they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:13 - These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:3 - Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:20 - And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:28 - Man[fn] wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new wineskins ready to burst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:13 - He divided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters stand like a heap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:83

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:83 - For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - “You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’
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