ΛΑΚΚΟΝ, λακκον
LAKKON, lakkon
Sounds Like: LAK-kos
Translations: pit, a pit, cistern, a cistern, reservoir, a reservoir, dungeon, a dungeon
From the root: ΛΑΚΚΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a pit, a cistern (an underground reservoir for water), or a dungeon. It is often used to describe a deep hole or excavation, whether natural or man-made, that can hold water or serve as a prison.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2999 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 45:6
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 3:31, 3:34, 3:35
- Book 4 — 8:283
- Book 7 — 12:316
- Book 10 — 7:121, 9:170, 11:253, 11:257, 11:258, 11:259, 11:261
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 8:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 37:24, 37:29, 40:15
- Exodus — 21:33
- Judges — 15:19
- Psalms — 7:16, 27:1, 29:4, 87:5, 142:7
- Ecclesiastes — 12:6
- Wisdom — 10:14
- Jeremiah — 45:6, 45:7, 45:11
- Ezekiel — 31:16
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 6:7, 6:12, 6:16, 6:19, 6:24, 14:31, 14:34, 14:35, 14:40, 14:42
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 6:5, 6:7, 6:12, 6:14, 6:17, 6:22, 14:31, 14:34, 14:35, 14:40, 14:42
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΑΚΚΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΛΑΚʼΚΟΥ — of a pit, of a cistern, of a well, of a ditch, of a hole
- ΛΑΚΚΟΙ — pits, cisterns, reservoirs, dens, holes
- ΛΑΚΚΟΙΣ — (to) pits, (to) cisterns, (to) caves, (to) dungeons
- ΛΑΚΚΟΣ — pit, a pit, cistern, a cistern, dungeon, a dungeon, well, a well, ditch, a ditch
- ΛΑΚΚΟΥ — of a pit, of a cistern, of a well, of a dungeon, of a pool, of a ditch
- ΛΑΚΚΟΥΣ — pits, cisterns, wells, ditches
- ΛΑΚΚΩ — to a pit, in a pit, a pit, a cistern, a well, a ditch
- ΛΑΚΚΩΝ — of pits, of cisterns, of wells, of reservoirs, of dungeons
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