Original Word: γλωσσόκομον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: glóssokomon
Phonetic Spelling: (gloce-sok'-om-on)
Definition: a case, a box
Usage: (a vernacular word), bag, purse; some prefer to take as: box, chest.Word Origin
from glóssa and the same as komizó
Definition
a case, a box
NASB Translation
money box (2).

STRONGS NT 1101: γλωσσόκομον

γλωσσόκομον, γλωσσοκομου, τό (for the earlier γλωσσοκομειον or γλωσσοκομιον (Winer's Grammar, 24 (23), 94 (90); yet see Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions 2448, 8:25, 31), from γλῶσσα and κομέω to tend);

a. a case in which to keep the mouth-pieces of wind instruments.

b. a small box for other uses also; especially a casket, purse to keep money in: John 12:6; John 13:29; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 98f. (For אָרון a chest, 2 Chronicles 24:8, 10f; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 1, 2; Plutarch, Longin, others.)

money-box, purse, bag

From glossa and the base of kosmos; properly, a case (to keep mouthpieces of wind-instruments in) i.e. (by extension) a casket or (specially) purse -- bag.

see GREEK glossa

see GREEK kosmos

γλωσσοκομον γλωσσόκομον γλωσσότμητον γλωσσοχαριτούντος γλωσσώδης γλωσσώδους γνάθω glossokomon glossókomon glōssokomon glōssókomonInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts