Lexicon
οἶνος
oinos
G3631
G:N-M Greek

wine

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oinos denotes a drink used at meals, in drinking, treatment, trade, and figurative expressions of wrath.

The term most often names a drink that may be supplied, consumed, withheld, mixed, or placed in wineskins; the same noun also occurs in Revelation’s figurative phrases about wrath and in lists of goods or provisions.

Senses in use

  1. A drink for use, consumption, and storage · dominant

    The noun identifies the drink whose supply had failed in John 2:3 and the substance that the APB says water had become in John 2:9. In Luke 5:37, the accusative forms occur in the statement that new wine is put into old wineskins and then poured out when the skins burst; 1 Timothy 5:23 instead places a little of it alongside water in advice concerning stomach and frequent ailments.

  2. Figurative drink in wrath expressions · common

    In Revelation 14:10, the genitive form occurs in the APB phrase “the wine of the wrath of God” that a person will drink from a cup. Revelation 14:8 and Revelation 18:3 likewise place the genitive form in phrases from which nations drank, while Revelation 19:15 joins it to the winepress of God’s wrath.

  3. An item of goods or protected provision · occasional

    In Revelation 18:13, the accusative form appears in a list with spices, oil, flour, grain, animals, and transport items. In Revelation 6:6, it is paired with olive oil in the command, “do not harm the olive oil and the wine.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the noun as “wine,” whether it is drunk, supplied, mixed, stored in wineskins, or listed among goods. In Revelation it retains “wine” within expanded phrases such as “the wine of the wrath of God”; these renderings reflect whole-verse translation rather than word-by-word alignment.

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