"Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.
Original word: σπόγγος
Transliteration: spoggos
Definition (short): sponge
Definition (full): a sponge
Word Origin: a prim. word
Definition: a sponge
NASB Translation: sponge (3).
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Perhaps of foreign origin; a "sponge" -- spunge.
KJV:
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
NASB:
Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.
KJV:
And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
NASB:
Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down."
KJV:
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
NASB:
A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.