ληνός

ληνός — lēnós

ληνός, ληνοῦ, ἡ (also ὁ, Gen 30:38; Gen 30:41 (cf. below)) (Theocritus, Diodorus, others);

1. a tubor trough-shaped receptacle, vat, in which grapes are trodden (A. V. wine-press) (Hebrew גַּת): Rev 14:20; Rev 19:15; τήν ληνόν... τόν μέγαν (for R Tr marginal reading τήν μεγάλην), Rev 14:19 — a variation in gender which (though not rare in Hebrew, see Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 717) can hardly be matched in Greek writings; cf. Winers Grammar, 526 (490) and his Exeget. Studd. i., p. 153f; Buttmann, 81 (71).

2. equivalent to ὑπολήνιον (Isa 16:10; Mar 12:1) or προλήνιον (Isa 5:2), Hebrew יֶקֶב, the lower vat, dug in the ground, into which the must or new wine flowed from the press: Mat 21:33. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Kelter; Roskoff in Schenkel 3:513; (BB. DD. under the word ).