Lēnós — G3025

Definition

feminine noun

a trough, i.e. wine-vat

1. a tubor trough-shaped receptacle, vat, in which grapes are trodden (A. V. wine-press) (Hebrew גַּת)
2. equivalent to ὑπολήνιον or προλήνιον , Hebrew יֶקֶב, the lower vat, dug in the ground, into which the must or new wine flowed from the press

Usually translated as

winepress

Origin

apparently a primary word

Occurrences

Lēnós occurs 5 times in 4 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Revelation (3)

• Matthew 21:33 — Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress (ληνὸν) in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
• Revelation 14:19 — And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress (ληνὸν) of the wrath of God.
• Revelation 14:20 — And the winepress (ληνὸς) was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
• Revelation 14:20 — And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress (ληνοῦ), even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
• Revelation 19:15 — And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress (ληνὸν) of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.