STRONGS NUMBER G4094


Word Summary
pinax: a board, dish
Original Word: πίναξ
Transliteration: pinax
Phonetic Spelling: (pin'-ax)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a board, dish
Meaning: a board, dish
Strong's Concordance
charger, platter.

Apparently a form of plax; a plate -- charger, platter.

see GREEK plax

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4094: πίναξ

πίναξ, πίνακος, (common thought to be from ΠΙΝΟΣ a pine, and so properly, 'a pine-board'; according to the conjecture of Buttmann, Ausf. Spr. i. 74 n., from πναξ for πλάξ (i. e. anything broad and flat (cf. English plank)) with inserted, as in πινυτός for πνυτος (according to Fick i. 146 from Sanskritpinaka, a stick, staff)), from Homer down;

1. a board, a tablet.

2. a dish, plate, platter: Matthew 14:8, 11; Mark 6:25,(27 Lachmann brackets),28; Luke 11:39; Homer, Odyssey 1, 141; 16, 49; others.