GreekG0779Noun (Masculine)

ἀσκός

askos

4Occurrences
G0779Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a leathern (or skin) bag used as a bottle

from the same as G778 (ἀσκέω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
a leather bottle, wine-skin: .
LXX: for חֵמֶת, נֹאד, נֶבֶל

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

G:N-M

Full Description

Greek Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

ἀσκός appears 4 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
2
Matthew
1
Mark
1

Key Passages

Luke 5:37BSB

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.

Luke 5:38BSB

Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.

Matthew 9:17BSB

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Mark 2:22BSB

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”

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