Quick Definition
πίναξ, ακος, ἡ n.m. a plate, platter
Strong's Definition
apparently a form of 4109; a plate
KJV Usage: charger, platter
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πίναξ, -axos, 6, (com. thought to be fr. ΠΙΝΟΣ a pine, and so prop. ‘a pine-board’; ace. to the conjecture of Buttmann, Ausf. Spr. i. 74 n., fr. mvaé for πλάξ [i. 6. anything broad and flat (cf. Eng. plank)] with ¢ inserted, as in πινυτός for πνυτός [ace. to Fick i. 146 fr. Skr. pinaka, a stick, staff]), fr. Hom. down; l.a board, a tablet. 2. a dish, plate, platter: Mt. xiv. 8, 11; Mk. vi. 25, [27 Lehm. br.], 28; Lk. xi. 39; Hom. Od. 1, 141; 16, 49; al.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πίναξ pinax 5x
pr. a board or plank; in NT a plate, platter, dish on which food was served, Mk. 14:8, 11
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** πίναξ, -ακος, ὁ,
[in LXX: IV Mac 17:7 R*;]
prop., a board, plank; hence, of various at wooden articles; a tablet;
a disc, a dish: Mt 14:8, 11, Mk 6:25, 28, Lk 11:39.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πίναξ, originally = “‘board,” ‘“* plank,” as e.g. in Sy// 537 (= %969)*% (B.c. 347-6) ἐπὶ τούτων ἐπιθήσει πίνακας συνκολλήσας. Hence anything /fa/, as ‘‘a tablet,” ‘‘a disc,” and later ‘‘a dish’’ as in Mt 148 a/.: cf. P Tebt 1. 1125} (accounts—B.C. 112) ἄρτου Κέ, πίνα(κος) ἐ, and BGU IIT. γϑιν.16. (i/A.p.) πίναξ μέγας ἐν θήκῃ. For πίναξ, ‘a votive tablet,” cf. Headlam Herodas p. 181 f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πίναξ (pinax) — platter. πίναξ [ῐ], ᾰκος, ὁ, board, plank, πίνακάς τε νεῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+], compare πινακηδό; πίνακος κουρά sawdust, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
1. drawing- or writing-tablet, ={δέλτος}, γράψας ἐν π. πτυκτῷ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a votive tablet hung on the image of a god, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Πίνακες tables or catalogues of authors, name of a work by Callimachus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; lists of philosophers, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
2. trencher, platter, κρειῶν πίνακας παρέθηκεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀργυροῦ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; salver, πίνακα.. μέγαν, ἔχοντα μικροὺς πέντε πινακίσκους [Refs]; πίνακες ὑέλινοι [Refs 6th c.AD+]
3. board for painting on, picture, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
4. generally, plate with anything drawn or engraved on it, χάλκεος π., of a map, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. γεωγραφικός, first made by Anaximander, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
5. board or tablet on which astronomical tables were drawn, ἡ περὶ πίνακα μέθοδος the art of casting nativities, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἀγυρτικοὶ π. [Refs]
5. b proverbial, ἐκ πίνακος καὶ πυλαίας, of a trivial fiction, [Refs]
6. public notice-board or register, π. ἐκκλησιαστικός [Refs 4th c.BC+]; but δαμόσιος π. public archive, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
7. strop, to sharpen knives on, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
8. toy-theatre for marionettes, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] (Cf. OSlavonic p[icaron]n[icaron] 'tree-stump'.)