Word Summary
sandalion: a sandal
Original Word: σανδάλιονTransliteration: sandalion
Phonetic Spelling: (san-dal'-ee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a sandal
Meaning: a sandal
Strong's Concordance
sandal.
Neuter of a derivative of sandalon (a "sandal"; of uncertain origin); a slipper or sole-pad -- sandal.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4547: σανδάλιονσανδάλιον,
σανδαλιου,
τό (diminutive of
σάνδαλον (which is probably a Persian word; cf.
Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word)),
a sandal, a sole made of wood or leather, covering the bottom of the foot and bound on with thongs:
Mark 6:9;
Acts 12:8. (
Herodotus,
Josephus,
Diodorus,
Aelian,
Herodian, others; for
נַעַל in
Isaiah 20:2; Judith 10:4 Judith 16:9. (In the
Sept. and
Josephus σανδάλιον and
ὑπόδημα are used indiscriminately; cf.
Isaiah 20:2;
Joshua 5:15;
Josephus,
b. j. 6, 1, 8.)) Cf.
Winers RWB, under the word Schuhe; Roskoff in
Schenkel 5:255; (Kamphausen in
Riehm, p. 1435ff;
B. D., under the word
; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i. 621).