millstone
mulos is a grinding stone, used in scenes of grinding, silenced work, and a stone placed around a person's neck.
The term denotes a grinding stone across its attested contexts: it is placed around the neck in warnings about causing little ones to stumble, appears in a grinding scene, and is heard as part of a city’s silenced activity.
Senses in use
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A stone associated with grinding · dominant
The nominative singular μύλος occurs in Mark 9:42 and Matthew 18:6 in the clause about a huge stone being around a person's neck; in each verse the APB renders the scene with “a huge millstone.” The dative singular μύλῳ appears in Matthew 24:41 where the APB renders people “grinding at the millstone,” while the genitive singular μύλου appears in Revelation 18:22 in the statement that the “voice of millstone” will no longer be heard.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “millstone” in all four verses, adding “huge” in the two neck-and-sea clauses. Its wording confirms the scenes without independently defining the Greek term.