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Ἀαρών
Aaron
Proper name.
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Ἀασάμην
I was addled
[Meaning] I did wrong, I slipped up; I was damaged, in the sense of "I was overcome by folly."
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Ἀββᾶ
Abba, Father
The ancients called God "Father" from a feeling of relationship. Moses said, "You have forsaken God who begot you." And Malachi: "One God begot us and is our father." They were in a state …
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Habakkuk, Abbakoum, Avvakoum
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[A name meaning] father of awakening. For the [word] abba means father, and koum means awakening. So also in the Holy Gospel: "Talitha, koum," that is, "young girl, get up." From which [it is] …
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Ἄβαξι
[in/on/with] planks, abacuses
What we call a)ba/kia. The Lawmaker [says] in the Martyrdom of Saint Thecla: "Tryphaina was overcome by suffering, and was seen lying like the dead on the slabs." So he says.
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Ἄβαρις
Abaris, Avars
Scythian, son of Seuthes. He wrote the so-called Scythinian Oracles and Marriage of the river Hebros and Purifications and a Theogony in prose and Arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans in meter. He came …
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Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
Name of a city.
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short
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23
Ἄβατον
inaccessible
[Meaning something] sacred, unapproachable, desolate; also an 'inaccessible' road, [meaning] impassable.
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short
α
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Ἀβαχθανῆ
abakhthani
A Hebrew expression.
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25
Ἀβδέλυκτα
unhateful [things]
[Meaning] those which do not cause pollution, at which one would not feel disgust or hatred. The word [is] somewhat tragic. Aeschylus in Myrmidons [writes]: "indeed, for I love them, they are unhateful to …
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Ἀβδιού
Abdiou, Obadiah
Proper name.
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Ἀβέβηλα
inviolable [places]
[Meaning] places that must not be walked on, holy and sacred places. For be/bhla meant what is not holy or sacred, where anyone may walk. Also [sc. attested is] be/bhloi, [meaning] those who do …
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Ἄβελ
Abel
Son of Adam. This man was chaste and just, and a shepherd of flocks; out of these he offered a sacrifice to God and was accepted, but was then killed because he was envied …
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medium
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Ἀβέλτερος
thoughtless
[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia [writes]: "any servant who takes …
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Ἀβεσαλώμ
Abesalom, Absalom
Proper name. [The man] who rose up against his own father David and was destroyed by him in the war.
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short
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Ἀβειρών
Abeiron
Proper name.
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short
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39
Ἀβιά
Abia, Abijah
Proper name.
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short
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41
Ἀβιάθαρ
Abiathar
Proper name.
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short
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Ἀβίας
Abijah, Abias
Son of Rehoboam the son of Solomon. He fought against Jeroboam, Solomon's slave, and in one day killed 1500 powerful men.
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Ἀβιέζερ
Abiezer
Proper name.
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45
Ἀβιμέλεχ
Abimelech
Proper name. The son of Gideon. He smote his brothers, seventy sons of Gideon's wives, upon a single stone, and none of them was left except Jotham the youngest son, who ran away. As …
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48
Ἀβιούδ
Abioud, Abihud
Proper name.
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short
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51
Ἀβισάκ
Abisak, Abishag
Proper name.
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short
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53
Ἄβιτος
Abitos, Abitus
Proper name. "Abitos built himself an ascetic's cell."
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short
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Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
The first among patriarchs; [it was he] in whom the Hebrew people took pride at first, before they rebelled against God, became estranged from Him, and shed upon themselves the blood of His Only-Begotten …
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75
Ἀβρεττηνή
Abrettene
A territory, the one [sc. also] called Mysia.
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short
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84
Ἀβρόμιος
Bromios-less, Bromius-less
[Meaning] without wine. "If I escape through the wave of destructive fire, I tell you I will drink for one hundred suns from dewy streams, Bromios-less and wine-less." In the Epigrams.
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Ἄβυσσον
abyss
[Meaning] that which not even a deep [buqo/s] can contain; but Ionians pronounce buqo/s as busso/s. From which also bussodomeu/ein ["to build in the deep"] appears to be said, from the verb du/nw ["I …
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medium
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Ἄβυσσος
abyss, pit
There was a shrine of Persephone, which guarded much gold from all ages [and] kept it inviolate. In this [shrine] there was a certain pit of gold, not visible to the general public [and] …
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Ἀγαθῆς Τύχης νεώς
temple of Good Fortune
The interpretation [is] not unclear.
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