ἀσκός
wineskin
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G779 appears in the Nominative case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun ασκος centers on the idea of “wineskin.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Luke dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. First canonically at Matthew 9:17, it enters the text early. Where the King James Version says “bottles,” newer translations reach for “wineskins” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G779 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bottles 12×
- American Standard Version: Skins 6×, Wine-skins 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wineskins 9×, Skins 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wineskins 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G779 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G779 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G779 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G779 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a leathern bag or bottle, in which water or wine was kept
Word origin
Derived from ασκεω (askéō) (G778) — to adorn.
From the same as G778 ; a leathern (or skin) bag used as a bottle : - bottle.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G779 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀσκοὺς askoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:17 | 5 |
| ἀσκοί askoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:17 | 2 |
| ἀσκούς askoús | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 2:22 | 2 |
| ἀσκοὶ askoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:17 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ασκος appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 7 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 21:14 ἀσκός
- Joshua 9:4 ἀσκός
- Judges 4:19 ἀσκός
- 1 Samuel 10:3 ἀσκός
- Job 13:28 ἀσκός
- Psalms 32:7 ἀσκός
- Jeremiah 13:12 ἀσκός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G779) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 21:14 ἀσκός Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:15 ἀσκός The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
- Genesis 21:19 ἀσκός God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
- Joshua 9:4 ἀσκός they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine-skins, old and torn and bound up,
- Joshua 9:13 ἀσκός and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
- Judges 4:19 ἀσκός He said to her, Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
- 1 Samuel 10:3 ἀσκός Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
- 1 Samuel 16:20 ἀσκός Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
- Job 13:28 ἀσκός Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
- Job 32:19 ἀσκός Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; Like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
- Psalms 32:7 ἀσκός You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 77:13 ἀσκός Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
- Psalms 118:83 ἀσκός
- Jeremiah 13:12 ἀσκός Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G779) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
