Quick Definition
a mantle, cloak
Strong's Definition
a mantle (surtout)
Derivation: by transposition for a derivative probably of G5316 (φαίνω) (as showing outside the other garments);
KJV Usage: cloke
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φαιλόνης (so Rec.eras st) or φελόνης (with most manuscripts including the Sinaiticus manuscript, Rec.bez elz G L T Tr (WH (cf. their Introductory § 404 and Appendix, p. 151{a} ; W. Dindosf in Stephanus' Thesaurus under the word φαινόλης, col. 583))), by metathesis for the more common φαινόλης (found in (Epictetus 4, 8, 24); Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 3; 5, 29; Pollux 7 (13) 61; Athen. 3, p. 97), φαιλονου, ὁ, Latinpaenula, a traveling cloak, used for protection against stormy weather: 2Ti_4:13, where others erroneously understand it to mean a case or receptacle for books as even the Syriac renders it )BtK tYB [].
STRONGS NT 5341: φελόνηςφελόνης, see φαιλόνης.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
not given
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† φελόνης
( Rec. φαιλ -), -ου , ὁ ,
by metath. for παινόλης (also φενόλης , φαινόλιον ; Lat. pζnula ),
a cloak ( v. DCG , i, 338; on the idea that the meaning here is book-cover , v. CGT , in l ; Milligan , NTD , 20; Field, Notes , 217 f ., where the view that the φ . here is an eccl . vestment is discussed): 2Ti_4:13 .†
φαιλόνης , see φελόνης .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φελόνης / φαιλόνης [pages 663, 665]
cloak ( paenula ). The word appears in the above form in 2Ti. 4:13, its only NT occurrence, cf. P Fay 347 (ii/A.D.), payment for various articles including φελονῶν . The dim. appears in P Gen I. 80 .14 (mid. iv/A.D.) φ [ε ]λόνιον ᾱ .
Other forms are (1) φαινόλης , as in the private account P Oxy IV. 736 .4 ( c. A.D. 1) φαινόλ [ο ]υ Κοράξου (δραχμαὶ ) ῑ , and similarly .10, .77 , ib. XII. 1583 .6 (ii/A.D.) γενοῦ παρὰ Ἰσίδωρον χάριν τοῦ [φαι ]νόλου καὶ τοῦ ἐπικαρσίου ( cross-band ), P Hamb I. 10 .19 (ii/A.D.) φαινόλην λευκοσπανὸν τέλειον , and P Oxy XIV. 1737 .9 (ii/iii A.D.) ῑβ̄ φαινολ (αι ) ς̄ . (2) φαινόλιον , as in P Oxy III. 531 .14 (ii/A.D.) τὰ ἱμάτια τὰ λευκὰ τὰ δυ [ν ]άμενα ματὰ τῶν προφυρῶν φορεῖσθαι φαινολίων , the white robes which are to be worn with the purple cloaks, ib. XII. 1584 .7 (ii/A.D.) περὶ τῶν φαινολίων , ib VI. 936 .18 (iii/A.D.) ὁ ἠπητὴς λεγει ὅτι οὐ διδω οὔτε τὸν χαλκὸν οὔτε τὸ φαινόλιν (for φαινόλιον᾽ ἄτερ Ἰούστου , the cobbler says that he will not give up either the money or the cloak without Justus, and ib. .19 οὔπω λελύτρωται τὸ φαινόλιν , the cloak has not yet been redeemed. (3) φαιλόνιον , as in ib. 933 .30 (late ii/A.D.) εἰ ἠγόρασεν τῷ παιδίῳ σου το̣, φαιλόνιον , whether he bought the cloak for your child : cf. P Giss I. 12 .4 (ii/A.D.) ἔπεμψάς μοι ὑγιῶς τὸν στήμονα καὶ τὴν κρόκην τῶν φαιλωνίων .
In view of the above usage it does not seem possible to understand the word other than as cloak in 2 Tim l.c. ; but see E. Maunde Thompson Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford, 1912), pp. 31 f., 47 : cf. also Birt Das antike Buckwesen , p. 65. There is an interesting discussion of the word in Field Notes , p. 217 f.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
φελόνης (Rec. φαιλ-), -ου, ὁ
by metath. for παινόλης (also φενόλης, φαινόλιον; Lat. pænula)
a cloak (see DCG, i, 338; on the idea that the meaning here is book-cover, see CGT, in l; Milligan, NTD, 20; Field, Notes, 217 f., where the view that the φ. here is an eccl. vestment is discussed): 2Ti.4:13.†
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