999. bothunos

Lexicon

bothunos: Pit, deep hole

Original Word: βόθυνος
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: bothunos
Pronunciation: bo'-thoo-nos
Phonetic Spelling: (both'-oo-nos)
KJV: ditch, pit
NASB: pit
Word Origin: [akin to G900 (βαθύνω - deep)]

1. a hole (in the ground)
2. (specially) a cistern

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

ditch, pit.

Akin to bathuno; a hole (in the ground); specially, a cistern -- ditch, pit.

see GREEK bathuno

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
probably from bathus
Definition
a pit
NASB Translation
pit (3).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 999: βόθυνος

βόθυνος, βοθύνου, ὁ, a pit, a ditch: Matthew 12:11; Matthew 15:14; Luke 6:39. (Solon in Bekker's Anecd. 1:85; Xenophon, oec. 19, 3; Theophrastus, hist. pl. 4, 2, 2 ((variant); others); the Sept. 2 Samuel 18:17, etc.)

Forms and Transliterations

βοθυνον βόθυνον βόθυνος βοθύνου βοθύνους βοϊδια βόλβιτα βολβίτοις βολβίτων bothunon bothynon bóthynon

Englishman's Concordance

Matthew 12:11 N-AMS
GRK: σάββασιν εἰς βόθυνον οὐχὶ κρατήσει
NAS: it falls into a pit on the Sabbath,
KJV: into a pit on the sabbath day,
INT: Sabbath into a pit will not he lay hold of

Matthew 15:14 N-AMS
GRK: ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται
NAS: both will fall into a pit.
KJV: shall fall into the ditch.
INT: both into a pit will fall

Luke 6:39 N-AMS
GRK: ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον ἐμπεσοῦνται
NAS: fall into a pit?
KJV: fall into the ditch?
INT: both into a pit will fall

Strong's Greek 999
3 Occurrences

βόθυνον — 3 Occ.