Σάπφειρα
Sappheira, Sapphira
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝21 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σάπφειρα· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ Σάπφειρος, εἶδος λίθου πολυτίμου.
Betacode
*sa/pfeira: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *sa/pfeiros, ei)=dos li/qou poluti/mou.
Notes (2)
- 1That of, notably, the wife of Ananias in Acts 5. Members of the early church in Jerusalem, they both died after attempting to keep money they had made in a sale. Later Christian writers refer many times to the episode. ↩
- 2Not, as one might have supposed, what is nowadays called sapphire (a blue corundum), but lapis lazuli: see LSJ s.v. ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 4 Oct 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝