Strong's Concordance akrothinion: the top of a heap, i.e. the best of the spoils Original Word: ἀκροθίνιον, ίου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: akrothinion Phonetic Spelling: (ak-roth-in'-ee-on) Short Definition: spoil, treasure Definition: (lit: top of a heap), first-fruits, spoil, treasure (taken in war). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 205: ἀκροθίνιονἀκροθίνιον, , τό (from ἄκρος extreme, and θίς, genitive θινός, a heap; extremity, topmost part of a heap), generally in plural τά ἀκροθίνια the first-fruits, whether of crops or of spoils (among the Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered to the gods, Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 35); in the Bible only once: Hebrews 7:4, of booty. (Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, others.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance spoils. From akron and this (a heap); properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e. (by implication) best of the booty -- spoils. see GREEK akron Forms and Transliterations ακροθινιων ακροθινίων ἀκροθινίων akrothinion akrothiniōn akrothiníon akrothiníōnLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 2051 Occurrence ἀκροθινίων — 1 Occ. Hebrews 7:4 N-GNP GRK: ἐκ τῶν ἀκροθινίων ὁ πατριάρχης NAS: gave a tenth of the choicest spoils. KJV: the tenth of the spoils. INT: out of the best spoils the patriarch |