Original Word: μυλών, ῶνος, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: mulón
Phonetic Spelling: (moo'-lone)
Short Definition: a mill-house
Definition: a mill-house, the place where grain was ground.

Cognate: 3459 mýlōn – a mill; a building (mill) used to operate a grinding mill-stone (it occurs only in Mt 24:41). See 3458 (mlos).

The old-styled, Eastern hand-mill required two people. One person dropped a handful of grain on a lower stone, while the other rubbed another stone back-and-forth on it to grind the grain.

[An ancient millstone (hand-mill) was generally turned by two women (see also 229 /alḗthō, and Ex 11:5). "There was a handle near the edge of the upper stone" (WP, 1, 194,95).]

STRONGS NT 3459: μυλών

μυλών (not paroxytone; see Chandler § 596 cf. § 584), μύλωνος, ὁ, place where a mill runs; mill-house: Matthew 24:41 R G. (Euripides, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Aristotle, others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

mill.

From mulos; a mill-house -- mill.

see GREEK mulos

Forms and Transliterations

μύλωνι μύλωνος μυξωτήρων

Links

Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts