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Βαβοῦς
Babo's, Baubo's
A proper name.
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short
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10
Βαβύλας
Babylas
Bishop of Antioch. When Numerianus -- or some say Decius -- was prompted by some demon to go into a crowded church, Babylas stood in front of the door and kept him from coming …
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Βαβυλωνία κάμινος
Babylonian oven
['Babylonian oven'] and 'Babylonian boys'.
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Βαήλ
Bael, Ba'al
[no gloss]
high
short
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78
Βάλλειν μήλοις
to hit with apples
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who happen upon those they love. Also [sc. attested is] ba/llw ["I hit"]: [used] with an accusative. "Those far away [he was] hitting with arrows out …
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short
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97
Βαπτίζω
I dip; I baptize
[Used] with an accusative.
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115
Βάρεις ἐλεφάντιναι
ivory bastions, ivory towers
[Meaning] the churches all over the world, one in faith, in which God is honored. Also [sc. attested is] ba/rewn, the genitive plural. But baris [is] a stoa and a city.
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116
Βαρθολομαῖος
Bartholomaios, Bartholemaeus, Bartholomew
Proper name.
high
short
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139
Βάσανος
touchstone, test
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested …
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143
Βασιλεύω
I reign
When it means I have authority and I rule, it is construed with a genitive; but when it means I make [someone] king, with an accusative. "And this one alone of all he treated …
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150
Βασίλειος
Basil, Basilius, Basileios
Bishop of Cappadocian Caesarea (which in the past used to be called Mazaca); a close friend of Gregory the bishop of Nadianda [= Nazianzus]. He came from illustirous parents, Basil and Emmelia, whose family …
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medium
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151
Βασίλειος
Basileios, Basilius, Basil
[Basil] of Ancyra, bishop of the same city, physician by trade. This man wrote Against Marcellus, and on virginity, and not a few other works. During the reign of Constantine he led the Macedonian …
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152
Βασίλειος
Basileios, Basilius, Basil
Another [Basil], bishop of Eirenoupolis in Cilicia, in the time of the emperor Anastasius. He resembled his namesake Basil of Caesarea in his mind-set and his ascetic life-style. He wrote against Archelaus, an elder …
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β
164
Βασιλίσκος
Basiliskos, Basiliscus
[Basiliskos,] the emperor of the eastern Romans, exacted money from the bishops of the churches and came close to expelling Akakios the bishop of Constantinople, if he had not been prevented by a large …
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medium
β
183
Βαττολογία
battology, empty repetition
[Meaning] garrulouness. [The term come] from a certain Battos, who composed long hymns consisting of many lines that repeated what was just said.
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199
Βδέλυγμα
abomination
Every statue and every relief sculpture of a human being used to be called this amongst Jews.
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200
Βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως
abomination of desolation
[Referring to] the statue of the emperor Hadrian. For Hadrian utterly destroyed the city [i.e. Jerusalem]. For after the desolation that occurred under Vespasian and Titus, the Jews organizing in the reign of Hadrian …
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201
Βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως
abomination of desolation
[Meaning a] sign of desolation. There were certain statues forbidden by the law that were brought into [the Temple]. Pilate did this by bringing a statue of the emperor into the Temple at night.
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short
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202
Βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως
abomination of desolation
[It is said] that Antiochos [IV] Epiphanes, son of Seleukos [IV] Philopator, was a terrible and grasping man. On capturing the city by the spear he killed 150,000 [people] and then, making an insolent …
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medium
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203
Βδελυγμία
nausea
Chrysostom used this word in his commentary on the Gospel according to John.
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short
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226
Βεελφεγώρ
Beelphegor
Beel [means] Cronus; Phegor [means] the place in which he was honored. "So they were consecrated to Beelphegor". Meaning in the place of the image of Phegor.
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short
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227
Βεζέκ
Bezek
[Meaning] lightning. Ezekiel [writes]: "they were bending back and forth like a type of Bezek" . Which is [to say, a type] of lightning.
high
short
β
252
Βηθανία
Bethany
A city of Palestine; but what John the evangelist says, "these events took place in Bethany," is written erroneously. For Bethany is on the near side of the Jordan; but Bethabara, "where John was …
high
short
β
253
Βηθσαϊδᾶ
Bethsaida
[no gloss]
high
short
β
254
Βηθσφαγή
Bethsphage
[no gloss]
high
short
β
263
Βηρίνη
Verina
Of Verina, wife of Leo the Great, there were two monuments, one to the northernmost side of saint Agathonicus behind the entry to the staircase, the other in the direction of saint Barbara. And …
high
short
β
276
Βίβλοι θεοῦ
books of God
[Meaning] knowledge itself and the memory which does not fail. David [says]: "and in your book all will be recorded."
high
short
β
294
Βίος
life, lifestyle
From the works of Philo. "The church of Christ establishes two styles of life, the one supernatural and above the common human way of life, not accepting marriage nor the procreation of children nor …
high
medium
β
350
Βοανεργές
Boanerges
[Meaning] sons of thunder.
high
short
β
379
Βονιφάτιος
Boniphatios, Bonifatius, Boniface
[no gloss]
high
short
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