GREEK · G5336
φάτνη
phatnē — manger
φάτνη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX for אֵבוּס, etc. ;] a manger: Luk.2:7, 12 2:16 13:15 (see DB, iii, 234a, DCG, ii, 111a),† (AS)
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Manger
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G20864
πάθνη
pathnē — manger
manger
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H18
אֵבוּס
e.vus — crib
crib, manger, feeding trough
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H723
אֻרְיָה
ur.vah — stall
manger, crib, stall (for animals) Also means: a.ve.rah (אֲוֵרָה "stall" H0220)
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H220
אֲוֵרָה
a.ve.rah — stall
manger, stall, crib Another spelling of ur.vah (אֻרְיָה "stall" H0723)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Historical dictionary entry
(Luke 2:7, 12, 16), the name (Gr. phatne, rendered “stall” in Luke 13:15) given to the place where the infant Redeemer was laid. It seems to have been a stall or crib for feeding cattle. Stables and mangers in our modern sense were in ancient times unknown in the East. The word here properly denotes “the ledge or projection in the end of the room used as a stall on which the hay or other food of the animals of travellers was placed.” (See INN.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.