Strong's Concordance glóssokomon: a case, a box Original Word: γλωσσόκομον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: glóssokomon Phonetic Spelling: (gloce-sok'-om-on) Short Definition: bag, purse, box, chest Definition: (a vernacular word), bag, purse; some prefer to take as: box, chest. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1101: γλωσσόκομονγλωσσόκομον, γλωσσοκομου, τό (for the earlier γλωσσοκομειον or γλωσσοκομιον (Winer's Grammar, 24 (23), 94 (90); yet see Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions 2448, 8:25, 31), from γλῶσσα and κομέω to tend); a. a case in which to keep the mouth-pieces of wind instruments. b. a small box for other uses also; especially a casket, purse to keep money in: John 12:6; John 13:29; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 98f. (For אָרון a chest, 2 Chronicles 24:8, 10f; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 1, 2; Plutarch, Longin, others.) From glossa and the base of kosmos; properly, a case (to keep mouthpieces of wind-instruments in) i.e. (by extension) a casket or (specially) purse -- bag. see GREEK glossa see GREEK kosmos Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 11012 Occurrences γλωσσόκομον — 2 Occ. John 12:6 N-ANS GRK: καὶ τὸ γλωσσόκομον ἔχων τὰ NAS: and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer KJV: and had the bag, and bare INT: and the moneybag had what John 13:29 N-ANS |