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Luke 14:5
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550)
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
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Greek-English Dictionary
a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes) that is a cistern or well; figuratively an abyss (as a prison)
1. a well
2. the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.