King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G205
Transliteration: akrothinion
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-roth-in'-ee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils
Meaning: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils
ἀκροθίνιον, , τό (from ἄκρος extreme, and θίς, genitive θινός, a heap; extremity, topmost part of a heap), generally in plural τά ἀκροθίνια the first-fruits, whether of crops or of spoils (among the Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered to the gods, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 35); in the Bible only once: Hebrews 7:4, of booty. (Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, others.)
Word Summary
akrothinion: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils
Original Word: ἀκροθίνιονTransliteration: akrothinion
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-roth-in'-ee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils
Meaning: the top of a heap, the best of the spoils
Strong's Concordance
spoils. From akron and this (a heap); properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e. (by implication) best of the booty -- spoils.
see GREEK akron
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 205: ἀκροθίνιονἀκροθίνιον, , τό (from ἄκρος extreme, and θίς, genitive θινός, a heap; extremity, topmost part of a heap), generally in plural τά ἀκροθίνια the first-fruits, whether of crops or of spoils (among the Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered to the gods, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 35); in the Bible only once: Hebrews 7:4, of booty. (Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, others.)