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Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #513 - ἀξίνη
Transliteration
axínē
Phonetics
ax-ee'-nay
Origin
probably from agnumi (to break, cf (G4486))
Parts of Speech
Noun Feminine
TDNT
None
Definition
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
Thayer's
- an axe
Frequency Lists
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Verse Results

KJV (2)
Matthew
1
Luke
1
NAS (2)
Matthew
1
Luke
1
HCS (2)
Matthew
1
Luke
1
BSB (2)
Matthew
1
Luke
1
ESV (2)
Matthew
1
Luke
1
WEB (2)
Matthew
1
Luke
1
Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions
ἀξῑν-η, ἡ,
1. axe-head, ἀξίνην ἐΰχαλκον ἐλαΐνῳ ἀμφὶ πελέκκῳ Il. 13.612.
2. battle-axe (expl. as δίστομος πέλεκυς by Hsch.), ib. 15.711, cf. Hdt. 7.64.
3. axe for hewing wood, X. An. 1.5.12, Matthew 3:10, Luke 3:9. (Cf. Goth. aqizi, O E. æx, Lat. ascia (fr. *acsia).)
Thayer's Expanded Definition
ἀξίνη, ἀξινης, ἡ ((perhaps from) ἄγνυμι, future ἄξω, to break), an axe: Luke 3:9; Matthew 3:10. (As old as Homer and Herodotus.)
Thayer's Expanded Greek Definition, Electronic Database.
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Vocabulary of the Greek NT
P Magd 8.6 (B.C. 218) δρέπανον θεριστικὸν οὗ τιμὴ (δραχμὰς) β ̄, ἀξίνη (δραχμὰς) β ̄. Herwerden s.v. κλῄς recalls the proverbial saying—τῇ κλειδὶ τὰ ξύλα σχίζειν, τῇ δ᾽ ἀξίνῃ τὴν θύραν ἀνοίγειν (Plut. Mor. 43 C). Cf. MGr ἀξινάρι.
The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
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Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
αξίναις αξινη αξίνη ἀξίνη αξίνην αξιόπιστος αξιοπιστότερα axine axinē axíne axínē
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Old / New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary developed by Jeff Garrison for StudyLight.org.
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